{"id":167687,"date":"2026-04-16T16:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167687\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:47:17","slug":"man-pleads-guilty-in-2019-allentown-homicide-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167687\/","title":{"rendered":"Man pleads guilty in 2019 Allentown homicide | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A homicide suspect who was on the run for more than three years has pleaded guilty in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Murdaugh pleaded guilty last week to criminal homicide in the January 2019 fatal shooting of Johnathan Williams in Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>He is scheduled to be sentenced in July.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities issued a warrant for his arrest in August 2020. Murdaugh was locked up in Lehigh County Jail in May 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A homicide suspect who was on the run for more than three years has pleaded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,31,805],"class_list":{"0":"post-167687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-lehighvalley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167687","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=167687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}