BETHLEHEM TWP., Pa. – A neighbor dispute appears to have led to deadly gunfire in a Northampton County neighborhood.<\/p>\n
Joshua Leone, 35, was arraigned Tuesday on a charge of criminal homicide, according to online court records.<\/p>\n
He’s charged in the Tuesday afternoon homicide in the 3000 block of Clifton Avenue in Bethlehem Township.<\/p>\n
Police were called to the scene of the dispute just after 2:30 p.m. and found one person dead.<\/p>\n
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County District Attorney Terry Houck said an autopsy will determine the victim’s exact cause of death, and said he could not confirm whether a gun was involved in the incident.<\/p>\n
Bethlehem Township police called the incident a shooting, and said one person was shot. Police said a suspect was taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n
A resident told 69 News gunshots were heard in the area around 2:45 p.m. The resident said the victim has not lived in the neighborhood for very long.<\/p>\n
Police said there is no danger to anyone residing in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I’m just so sad and heartbroken. I just don’t understand,” said\u00a0Diane McDaniel, who has lived in the development in Bethlehem Township for more than 40 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Amber Walters says she knows one of the neighbors involved.<\/p>\n
“They were good neighbors, always said hello and waved to the kids who were always outside playing,” Walters said.<\/p>\n
As investigators look for answers, so do the people who live in the community.<\/p>\n
“It definitely shook the neighborhood a little, all the neighbors were calling each other and trying to figure out what was going on,” Walters said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM TWP., Pa. – A neighbor dispute appears to have led to deadly gunfire in a Northampton County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,16521,28],"class_list":["post-181509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-twp","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181509","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=181509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}