ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 An Allentown man charged in the 2022 shooting death of a man on a city street has been convicted of first-degree murder.<\/p>\n
Steven M. Rosa, 31, was convicted by a jury of first-degree homicide and carrying a firearm without a license in the July 28, 2022, killing of Tywon Deleva Abner, 33, of Allentown. <\/p>\n
Abner was shot in the 500 block of West Allen Street.<\/p>\n
A first-degree murder conviction in Pennsylvania carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n
Lehigh County District Attorney’s office<\/p>\n
The trial began May 12 before Judge Robert L. Steinberg and the jury returned the verdict Thursday, Lehgh County District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan said.<\/p>\n
A first-degree murder conviction in Pennsylvania carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n
In a separate case tried with the homicide, Rosa was convicted of felony counts of witness intimidation and criminal use of a communications facility. <\/p>\n
That case arose out of Rosa, while in Lehigh County Jail, using a computer tablet to intimidate a person who had information about the homicide to not testify.<\/p>\n
Charged after nearly two years<\/p>\n
Rosa was charged nearly two years after the shooting after a grand jury heard testimony presented by the district attorney’s office.<\/p>\n
The night of the shooting, Allentown police responded about 11 p.m. to reports of a shooting and found Abner with a gunshot wound, according to a release from Holihan’s office. <\/p>\n
According to the release, police and paramedics administered emergency aid, but Abner died at a local hospital.<\/p>\n
The Lehigh County coroner ruled that Abner died from a gunshot wound to the chest and his death was ruled a homicide.<\/p>\n
Rosa also is serving a state prison sentence following a conviction for a robbery which occurred after the murder.<\/p>\n
Holihan credited the persistence and dedication of the detectives and prosecutors who worked on the case for years.<\/p>\n
Holihan specifically cited Allentown Police Detective Miguel Villa, who maintained his involvement “as a vital part of this prosecution” even after his retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 An Allentown man charged in the 2022 shooting death of a man on a city…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,86171,120,86172,2280,86173,86174],"class_list":["post-193531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-murder-conviction","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-police-news","tag-allentown-shooting","tag-homicide-and-allentown","tag-murder-and-allentown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193531","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=193531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}