{"id":202238,"date":"2026-05-26T00:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202238\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T00:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:12:12","slug":"allentown-man-charged-with-attempted-homicide-after-allegedly-stabbing-women-multiple-times-police-say-allentown-area-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202238\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown man charged with attempted homicide after allegedly stabbing women multiple times, police say | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Police have arrested an Allentown man accused of stabbing a woman multiple times during a domestic incident Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release from Allentown Police, officers were called around 2:34 p.m. to the 700 block of Saint John\u2019s Street for a reported stabbing.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Allentown Police investigating criminal incident\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"466\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a14a4f4572eb.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say they determined the attack was domestic in nature.<\/p>\n<p>Police identified the suspect as 43\u2011year\u2011old Amir Whitehurst, who they say stabbed a 49\u2011year\u2011old woman several times. The victim was rushed to the hospital and is listed in critical but stable condition, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Police: Investigating criminal incident in Allentown\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"466\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a14a74a5b744.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>Whitehurst is now charged with attempted homicide, endangering the welfare of a child, and other related offenses, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Police: Investigating criminal incident in Allentown 2\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"466\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a14a7920794b.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Police have arrested an Allentown man accused of stabbing a woman multiple times during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,31,40204,2582,1021,206,294],"class_list":["post-202238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime","tag-developing-story","tag-incident","tag-investigation","tag-police","tag-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202238","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=202238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}