Yunior Peralta-Quintana, 23, was convicted by a jury<\/a> of attempted murder back in January along with aggravated assault and other related charges. <\/p>\nPeralta-Quintana admitted in court that he is a member of a gang and was sentenced to 40 to 80 years in state prison. <\/p>\n
Miguel Ovalles Ubri, 29, is also facing charges in connection to this shooting. <\/p>\n
Chaos unfolded at Allentown’s Dominican Festival in 2024<\/p>\n
Police said Yunior Peralta-Quintana and Miguel Ovalles Ubri fired shots at each other in a parking lot on the 100 block of North 7th\u00a0Street in Allentown near the Dominican festival back on Aug. 25, 2024, at 6:45 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Video footage of the incident shows crowds of people \u2013 including children and teens \u2013 running for cover as shots are fired, police said.<\/p>\n
Allentown police officers arrived at the scene as the shooting continued. Two of those officers fired shots, according to investigators. Officials said none of the six people who were injured by gunfire were shot by the officers, however. No officers were hurt during the shooting.<\/p>\n
Officials said there were extra Allentown police officers who were patrolling the festival at the time of the shooting. They also said the officers saved lives by acting quickly and treating the shooting victims with tourniquets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the two men charged in connection to a 2024 mass shooting in Allentown was sentenced to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,28],"class_list":["post-144603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144603","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=144603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}