{"id":202243,"date":"2026-05-26T00:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202243\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T00:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:25:10","slug":"allentown-man-charged-with-attempted-homicide-in-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202243\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown man charged with attempted homicide in stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Allentown man is charged with attempted homicide after allegedly stabbing a 49-year-old woman multiple times Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to a home on the 700 block of Saint John Street in south Allentown around 2:30 p.m. for a report of a stabbing, according to a news release from Capt. Jonathan Brubaker.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the stabbing resulted from a domestic incident. The woman who was stabbed was in critical but stable condition, Brubaker said Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Police identified the man charged as Amir Whitehurst, 43. In addition to the attempted homicide charge, he faces additional charges of aggravated assault, possession of instruments of a crime, simple assault, reckless endangerment, and endangering the welfare of a child, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Brubaker said no additional information about the incident would be released Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Allentown man is charged with attempted homicide after allegedly stabbing a 49-year-old woman multiple times Monday. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,2376,202,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-202243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202243","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=202243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202243\/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=202243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}