A 17-year-old boy was killed and two other people were injured after a shooting in Allentown, Lehigh County, police said.<\/p>\n
The shooting happened around 10:01 p.m. near North Jay Street and East North Street on Saturday, June 6, 2026. Police said when officers got to the scene, they found three people suffering from gunshot wounds. <\/p>\n
All three people were taken to nearby hospitals for treatment. The teen boy was taken to the Emergency Department at Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2013Muhlenberg and pronounced dead at 11:31 p.m. <\/p>\n
The boy has been positively identified; however, authorities are not releasing his name at this time to allow his family privacy as they grieve. <\/p>\n
The identities or the conditions of the other two victims have also not been released. <\/p>\n
The Allentown Police Department, the Lehigh County Homicide Task Force, the Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office and the Lehigh County Coroner’s Office and Forensic Center are investigating this incident. <\/p>\n
Anyone with information or video regarding this incident is encouraged to contact the Allentown Police Department Criminal Investigation Division at 610-437-7721. <\/p>\n
Police said no additional information would be released at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old boy was killed and two other people were injured after a shooting in Allentown, Lehigh County,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,433],"class_list":["post-213109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213109","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=213109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}