{"id":150388,"date":"2026-03-27T21:30:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/150388\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T21:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:30:42","slug":"man-fatally-shot-by-police-in-lower-saucon-had-fired-gun-during-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/150388\/","title":{"rendered":"Man fatally shot by police in Lower Saucon had fired gun during incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 37-year-old man fatally shot by police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/03\/25\/lower-saucon-shelter-in-place-applebutter-road\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wednesday in Lower Saucon Township fired a gun before police returned fire on him<\/a>, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Lower Saucon police officers were called to the 2400 block of Applebutter Road to do a welfare check on a man who had discharged a gun, according to a news release from state police, which is the lead investigator in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The man, whose identity has not been released as of Thursday morning, discharged his firearm, and a Lower Saucon officer returned fire, but no one was hit, the release states. A state police special emergency response team then arrived and surrounded the home. One of the SERT team members \u201cengaged\u201d the man and shot him outside the home.<\/p>\n<p>The man was taken to St. Luke\u2019s University Hospital in Fountain Hill, where he died from his injuries. No one else was injured.<\/p>\n<p>The incident prompted a shelter-in-place order for people in the area. Applebutter Road was closed for several hours while police were responding.<\/p>\n<p>Check back later for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 37-year-old man fatally shot by police Wednesday in Lower Saucon Township fired a gun before police returned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,2376,202,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-150388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150388","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=150388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}