An Allentown man is charged in a shooting that injured a man two weeks ago outside of a city bar.<\/p>\n
Bilal Jones, 36, was arraigned Friday on charges alleging he hit a man in the head with a gun, causing the gun to fire and injure the man April 14 outside East Siders Bar and Grill. Jones is charged with aggravated assault, prohibited possession of a firearm and carrying a firearm without a license, as well as a misdemeanor of recklessly endangering another person.<\/p>\n
Jones, a security guard, was arguing with the man about 11 p.m. outside the bar in the 2200 block of Union Boulevard, city police wrote in court documents. The two began to fight, and the fight spilled out onto Union Boulevard, court documents state.<\/p>\n
The man then walked toward the sidewalk when Jones walked up behind him and hit him in the head with the gun, causing it to fire, police said. The man suffered a laceration above his right eye and was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Jones got on a motorcycle and fled the scene, police wrote in court documents. Police said he has an active protection-from-abuse order, meaning he cannot have a gun. Additionally, Jones was seen concealing the gun before fleeing the scene, according to police, who said he does not have a valid permit to conceal.<\/p>\n
The Lehigh County Public Defender\u2019s office is listed as Jones\u2019 attorney. The public defender\u2019s office, when reached Tuesday, said it did not have anyone assigned to his case.<\/p>\n
Jones remains free after posting $100,000 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Allentown man is charged in a shooting that injured a man two weeks ago outside of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-178518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-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\/178518","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=178518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}