One person was injured in an altercation Saturday evening in Center City Allentown that led to a gun being fired.<\/p>\n
City police responded to a report of a shooting around 8 p.m. in the 300 block of Linden Street, Capt. Daniel Gross said in a news release.<\/p>\n
Police determined that there had been an altercation that led to a single shot being fired, but that no one was hit by the gunshot, according to Gross.<\/p>\n
Officers found the people involved in the altercation. One of those individuals was injured as a result of the altercation and taken to a hospital, Gross said.<\/p>\n
The incident drew a large police presence to the area. Photos showed crime scene tape blocking Linden Street.<\/p>\n
Police are continuing to investigate.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at 610-437-7721 or the Police Desk at 610-437-7753 (ext. 1). Anonymous text tips also can be sent via the Tip411 app available on the Allentown Police Department website at www.allentownpa\/gov\/Police<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person was injured in an altercation Saturday evening in Center City Allentown that led to a gun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-206653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206653","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=206653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}