ALLENTOWN, Pa. – An Allentown man has learned his sentence in a\u00a02022 shooting that left one man dead.<\/p>\n
Xavier Grenon was sentenced to serve 18 to 40 years in state prison, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n
He was convicted of conspiracy to commit criminal homicide, attempt to commit criminal homicide, and one count of aggravated assault, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A Lehigh County jury convicted Grenon in February 2026.<\/p>\n
He was charged in the Aug. 31, 2022 death of Najeer Lane, 22, of Allentown.<\/p>\n
Lane was a passenger in a car driven by Bless Jones, the DA’s Office said.<\/p>\n
Grenon and his co-defendants agreed to meet Jones at Trout Creek Park in Allentown.<\/p>\n
Officials say while enroute to the park, Jones and Lane were ambushed by Grenon and his co-defendants.<\/p>\n
During the ambush, 13 rounds were fired at the car from a handgun modified with a Glock switch, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
The Glock switch allows a semi-automatic handgun to fire as fully automatic and the 13 rounds were fired in approximately one second, according to officials.<\/p>\n
Lane was killed at the scene of the shooting, but Jones escaped and drove to his home, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Less than one hour later, Grenon and his co-defendants arrived at that location and fired 12 rounds at Jones and a second person, missing both of them, according to the DA’s Office. Lane died from one gunshot wound to the back and his death was ruled a homicide by the Lehigh County Coroner, the DA’s Office said.<\/p>\n
Grenon was also convicted of the attempted murder of Jones.<\/p>\n
Also charged in these shootings is Frederick Antwan Marks Jr., 26, of Bath, according to authorities. Marks is awaiting trial and remains incarcerated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – An Allentown man has learned his sentence in a\u00a02022 shooting that left one man dead.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,1816,28],"class_list":["post-180764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county-district-attorney","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180764","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=180764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}