ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The victim of a shooting at a McDonalds in Allentown succumbed to his injuries on Monday.<\/p>\n
According to a press release from Lehigh County Coroner Dan Buglio, John Doe was pronounced dead on Monday, May 18 at 1:55 p.m. at Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2013Muhlenberg. The coroner says John Doe died as a result of gunshot injuries. The manner of death was ruled a homicide.<\/p>\n
The decedent has been positively identified, and next-of-kin notifications have been made. However, the identity of the decedent is not being released at this time out of respect for the family, according to the coroner.<\/p>\n
An autopsy will be completed at the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office & Forensic Center (LCCO&FC) to assist in determining the cause of death.<\/p>\n
On Friday May 15, at approximately 9:10 p.m., Allentown Police officers responded to the McDonalds located at 1321 Union Boulevard for a report of shots fired.<\/p>\n
Upon arrival, officers located a victim of a gunshot wound and gave first aid. The victim was transported to an area hospital by Allentown EMS to be treated for his injuries.<\/p>\n
This incident is under investigation. Police say there is no threat to the community.<\/p>\n
The Allentown Police Department is asking anyone with information to call Detectives at 610-437-7721 or the Police Desk at 610-437-7753 (ext. 1).<\/p>\n
Additionally, anonymous text tips can be sent via the Tip411 App available on the Allentown Police Facebook Page<\/a> or via the Allentown Police Department website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The victim of a shooting at a McDonalds in Allentown succumbed to his injuries on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,26759],"class_list":["post-195957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-mcdonald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195957","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=195957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}