A 20-year-old man has been charged in relation to the fatal Allentown shooting that occurred Thursday night.<\/p>\n
District Attorney Jim Martin announced Anderson Jorge Cruz, of no current address, is facing charges of criminal homicide.<\/p>\n
A warrant has been issued for his arrest.<\/p>\n
Officials responded to a shooting Thursday shortly after 8 p.m. in Allentown’s 300 block of Linden Street.<\/p>\n
Upon arrival they found Juan Alfredo Sanchez, 24, of Allentown with gunshot wounds to his upper torso.<\/p>\n
He was transported to the hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n
Martin says based on an investigation of the shooting, it is alleged Cruz fatally shot Sanchez.<\/p>\n
A witness told police Sanchez and Cruz got into a verbal argument that resulted in a physical altercation.<\/p>\n
The witness said they saw Cruz with a handgun, heard two gunshots and heard Cruz say to Sanchez, “I didn’t mean to do this” or “I didn’t want to do this”.<\/p>\n
The witness then observed Sanchez lying on the ground, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n
Officials say Cruz got into his 2012 silver Hyundai, bearing a Pennsylvania registration of JWB 7952, and fled the scene quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 20-year-old man has been charged in relation to the fatal Allentown shooting that occurred Thursday night. District…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,31,10465,805,139],"class_list":["post-136932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime","tag-dni","tag-lehighvalley","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}