ALLENTOWN, Pa. –\u00a0Lehigh County Coroner Daniel Buglio has identified the teenager who was shot and killed in Allentown over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Ja’meer Roberts, 17, of Allentown, was pronounced dead on Saturday at 11:31 p.m. in the emergency department at Lehigh Valley Hospital — Muhlenberg, according to the coroner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Buglio says the cause of death is multiple gunshot wounds, and the manner of death was ruled a homicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Allentown Police Department officers responded around 10:01 p.m. Saturday to the area of North Jay Street and East North Street following reports of gunfire.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, they found three victims suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. Emergency medical personnel treated the victims at the scene before transporting all three to area hospitals.<\/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 are conducting the investigation.<\/p>\n
Allentown Mayor Matt Tuerk released a statement, expressing his condolences and saying that “we have to do better.”<\/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. This was a person not even 18 years old\u2026. A boy… a child\u2026 who had his whole life ahead of him. This happened to another young man two weeks ago in our city.<\/p>\n
We have to do better. We have to stop the flow of guns into the hands of young people,” the full statement reads.\u00a0<\/p>\n