{"id":154610,"date":"2026-04-01T19:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/154610\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:40:11","slug":"allentown-motel-shooting-injures-1-person-teen-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/154610\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown motel shooting injures 1 person; teen charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old is charged in a shooting that injured one person early Wednesday in Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called about 5 a.m. to the Red Roof Inn at 2650 Moravian Ave. for a report of a shooting, city police said in a news release. Not long after, someone suffering from a gunshot wound showed up at a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The department said the injury is not life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined there was a \u201cdisturbance\u201d in one of the motel rooms before the shooting. A gun was recovered, and a 17-year-old boy from Allentown is charged with aggravated assault, prohibited possession of a firearm, carrying a firearm by a minor and carrying a firearm without a license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old is charged in a shooting that injured one person early Wednesday in Allentown. Officers were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,2376,202,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-154610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154610","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=154610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}