Mayor Matt Turek<\/a> said the community’s “hearts are with the family in this difficult time.” <\/p>\n“Among the great tragedies of our time is that so many guns find their way into the hands of so many young people so easily,” the mayor wrote on Facebook. <\/p>\n
This was a person not even 18 years old…. A boy… a child… who had his whole life ahead of him<\/p>\n
In his statement, Turek confirmed this is the second deadly shooting in two weeks.<\/p>\n
“We have to do better. We have to stop the flow of guns into the hands of young people,” Turek said.<\/p>\n
This incident is being investigated by the Allentown Police Department along with the Lehigh County Homicide Task Force, the district attorney’s office, and the county coroner’s office.<\/p>\n
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Anyone with information or video regarding the shooting is encouraged to contact the APD criminal investigation division at 610-437-7721 or by submitting a tip on the department website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGIH COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 A teenage boy has died after a weekend shooting in Allentown sent three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-213547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213547","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=213547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}