{"id":193451,"date":"2026-05-15T16:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/193451\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T16:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:44:09","slug":"allentown-man-guilty-of-murder-in-2022-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/193451\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown man guilty of murder in 2022 shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Allentown man was found guilty this week in a homicide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2022\/07\/29\/update-coroner-identifies-allentown-man-who-died-after-shooting-on-city-street-homicide-investigation-under-way\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that happened nearly four years ago in the city.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Lehigh County jury on Thursday found Steven Rosa, 32, guilty of first-degree murder and carrying a firearm without a license in the killing of Twon Abner, 33, on July 28, 2022, Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin Holihan said in a news release. The trial lasted three days.<\/p>\n<p>Abner was shot that night in the 500 block of West Allen Street. Police found him with a gunshot wound, and he was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died from his injuries. A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2024\/06\/05\/allentown-homicide-charges-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lehigh County\u2019s grand jury investigated the case; the presentment was sealed when Rosa was charged in June 2024.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The DA\u2019s office said Rosa also was convicted on charges of witness intimidation and criminal use of a communications facility. Rosa tried to intimidate someone who had information about the homicide, according to the release. Authorities said Rosa, who was in Lehigh County Jail, used a tablet and tried to convince the witness not to testify.<\/p>\n<p>Rosa is also serving a prison sentence for a robbery that happened in May 2023 in Allentown, according to court records. He will be sentenced to life in prison for the murder. Sentencing is scheduled for August.<\/p>\n<p>His attorney did not immediately return a message seeking comment Friday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Allentown man was found guilty this week in a homicide that happened nearly four years ago in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,46,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-193451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-courts","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193451","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=193451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}