{"id":195935,"date":"2026-05-18T20:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195935\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T20:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:59:09","slug":"allentown-mcdonalds-shooting-victim-dies-at-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195935\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown McDonald&#8217;s shooting victim dies at hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/slot.medianewsgroup.com\/2026\/05\/16\/allentown-shooting-union-boulevard-mcdonalds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bethlehem man shot Friday night at an Allentown McDonald\u2019s<\/a> died Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The man, 18, died at 1:55 p.m. at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg, according to Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio.<\/p>\n<p>Bulgio said the man died as a result of gunshot injuries, and the manner was homicide. The coroner said he was not yet publicly identifying the man so the family could have time to grieve privately.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, officers responded about 9:10 p.m. to the restaurant at 1321 Union Blvd., where they found someone who had been shot. The person was transported to an area hospital by Allentown EMS.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities released no further information, but said there is no threat to the community.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting is being investigated by the Allentown Police Detective Division, the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s office, and the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Police asked anyone with information to call detectives at 610-4377721 or the police desk at 610-437-7753 (ext. 1). Additionally, anonymous text tips can be sent via the Tip411 App available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/allentownpolice\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Allentown Police Facebook Page<\/a> or via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allentownpa.gov\/Police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Allentown Police Department website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bethlehem man shot Friday night at an Allentown McDonald\u2019s died Monday afternoon. The man, 18, died at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4178,"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-195935","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\/195935","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=195935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}