ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A teenager has been charged in the fatal shooting of another teenager at a park in Allentown.<\/p>\n
Elijah Patterson, 16, admitted to shooting 15-year-old Treshawn Tracy at Stevens Park on Sunday, according to police paperwork.<\/p>\n
Patterson was charged as an adult with homicide, possession of a firearm by a minor and carrying a firearm without a license, said the Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n
He is behind bars in Lehigh County Jail after being denied bail during a hearing late Monday night into early Tuesday, the DA said in a news release.<\/p>\n
Video surveillance shows Patterson, Tracy and others at Stevens Park on North Sixth Street on Sunday before the 2:30 p.m. shooting, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The video shows a fight break out between Patterson and Tracy under a pavilion, the DA said. Patterson shoots Tracy three times, tucks the handgun in his waistband and runs away, police said in an affidavit of probable cause.<\/p>\n
Responding officers found Tracy, a sophomore at William Allen, dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Investigators determined Patterson had come from the 400 block of Tilghman Street on his way to the park, so police conducted surveillance in that area on Monday, officials said.<\/p>\n
Officers spotted Patterson and several others sitting on the porch of one of the homes, and Patterson was taken into custody, paperwork says.<\/p>\n
In an interview with police, he admitted to shooting Tracy three times, officials said.<\/p>\n
His next court date is a preliminary hearing set for October, online court records say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A teenager has been charged in the fatal shooting of another teenager at a park…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,31,5114,805,10466],"class_list":["post-149759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime","tag-instagram","tag-lehighvalley","tag-week-in-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149759","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=149759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}