{"id":20036,"date":"2025-10-30T19:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/20036\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T19:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:45:07","slug":"man-sentenced-in-deadly-shooting-outside-childs-birthday-party-in-allentown-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/20036\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced in deadly shooting outside child&#8217;s birthday party in Allentown | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A man that shot and killed another man outside of a child&#8217;s birthday party in Allentown has been sentenced.<\/p>\n<p>Roberto Gonzalez, of Allentown, was sentenced 11.5 to 28 years on Thursday afternoon following a court appearance at the Lehigh County Courthouse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez killed\u00a0Miguel Dalmasi, 33, of Alburtis, in a dispute that happened at a birthday party for a one-year-old, the DA&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened February 17, 2024 at East Walnut and South Dauphin streets.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say Dalmasi was found dead at the scene, and his death was officially ruled a homicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A media release from the coroner&#8217;s office said that, prior to the shooting, several unknown men wearing ski masks gathered the hall where the birthday party was being held and a dispute began.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Dalmasi went outside to mediate the dispute and a fight broke out. A man, now identified as Gonzalez, pulled out a gun and fired several shots, hitting Dalmasi, authorities said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A man that shot and killed another man outside of a child&#8217;s birthday party in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-20036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-pennsylvania"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20036","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=20036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}