{"id":205238,"date":"2026-05-29T09:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205238\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:59:11","slug":"police-investigate-deadly-shooting-in-whitehall-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205238\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate deadly shooting in Whitehall | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. &#8212; One person is dead after a shooting in Whitehall Township, Lehigh County.<\/p>\n<p>It happened in the 5100 block of Third Street in the Cementon area.<\/p>\n<p>Officers with Whitehall Township Police, Pennsylvania State Police, and the Lehigh County Coroner&#8217;s Office were all on scene around 5 p.m. at Third Street and Laurel Lane.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors in the area stayed outside watching the entire investigation unfold in disbelief.<\/p>\n<p>Before police cleared the area, 69 News spoke with investigators, hoping to learn more about the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Officers in the early evening said the district attorney&#8217;s office was expected to release information later.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether a suspect was in custody, police said they could not provide that information at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Around 10:30 p.m., the Whitehall Township Police Department posted on its social media page that there \u201cis no danger to the public.\u201d It described the incident as a homicide under active investigation and said additional information will be released as appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Whitehall police car at shooting scene\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a18bb40220a7.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Mike Nester | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. &#8212; One person is dead after a shooting in Whitehall Township, Lehigh County. It happened&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,805],"class_list":["post-205238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-lehighvalley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205238","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=205238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}