Charges have been filed in the homicide that occurred at Allentown’s Hamilton Tower last Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Joshwynn Garcia, 21, of Hamilton Street is charged with criminal homicide and firearms not to be carried without a license, Lehigh County DA Jim Martin announced in a press conference Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Garcia is being held in Lehigh County Jail on a parole violation and on other new charges, which occurred while he was behind bars. One of those additional charges include aggravated harassment by a prisoner.<\/p>\n
Garcia was arraigned on homicide charges Tuesday with no bail, Martin said.<\/p>\n
On Nov. 8, officers responders to the report of a male covered in blood inside of a vehicle at Hamilton Tower. Officials found the body of 19-year-old Parris Lane of Allentown seated in a green Infinity.<\/p>\n
Lane was pronounced dead at the scene. The Lehigh County Coroner ruled his manner of death a homicide and the cause of death multiple gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n
Martin said Lane was an unconfirmed member of the Bloods gang and formally a member of the Crips. Martin said Lane was also a local member of OMB, which stands for “Only My Brothers”.<\/p>\n
Detectives interviewed witnesses, one in which stated that he or she is the owner of the Infinity and gave the car to Garcia to use.<\/p>\n
Another witness described being in the vehicle at the time of shooting and said he or she fled the vehicle after the shooting, according to Martin.<\/p>\n
Martin said it’s alleged Garcia shot and killed Lane.<\/p>\n
“We don’t know what went on prior to the killing,” Martin said. “All I know is the two were allegedly in the vehicle at the time of shooting.”<\/p>\n
District Attorney Martin praised police for their ‘excellent work’ in this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charges have been filed in the homicide that occurred at Allentown’s Hamilton Tower last Wednesday. Joshwynn Garcia, 21,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,10465,805,139,10466],"class_list":["post-13846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-dni","tag-lehighvalley","tag-news","tag-week-in-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13846","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=13846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}