{"id":220024,"date":"2026-06-16T01:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220024\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T01:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:08:07","slug":"accidental-shooting-at-game-lands-in-lehigh-county-da-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220024\/","title":{"rendered":"Accidental shooting at game lands in Lehigh County, DA says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/lehigh-county\/\" title=\"Navigate to Lehigh County\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lehigh County<\/a>Published: Jun. 15, 2026, 3:57 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Accidental shooting at Game Lands in Lehigh County, DA says\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/UOHGZTWZPVEFJCYHAGJSX2WCQU.JPG\"  \/>The incident occurred Sunday afternoon at Pennsylvania Game Lands along Game Warden Road in Lowhill Township. The district attorney said the shooting appeared to be accidental and no charges have been filed.Courtesy photo by Dwight Adam\/Pennsylvania Game Commission<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KKYN5X3CUNGYBDBJCMHAS4YUYQ\">A person was shot Sunday afternoon at a public shooting range in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Lehigh%20County\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Lehigh%20County\">Lehigh County<\/a>, the DA said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7GH2HJUQYRA33CAZTOP2F4R3CU\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/gavinholihan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/gavinholihan\">District Attorney Gavin Holihan<\/a> told lehighvalleylive.com the accidental shooting was at the Pennsylvania Game Lands on Game Warden Road in Lowhill Township. A person suffered a gunshot wound to the leg from a 9mm firearm, Holihan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4KAOW32UWRGXHNZDNPODX6SWT4\">Holihan said the shooting appeared to result from an accidental discharge. The injury is not life threatening, the DA said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-articles-affiliate\">MORE BY PAMELA SROKA-HOLZMANN<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2Q3RHS5IOVGPPALIJMDDEPU3AI\">No charges have been filed, Holihan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6BY3NXTXGRBC3JJ3OIWYOOGCAM\">\u201cNo additional information will be released by this office until we learn more information,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZOMLO7ZJPNHYXIRAZ4VGZSBVQE\">The Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office continues to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Pamela Sroka-Holzmann is an award-winning journalist, covering breaking, crime and public safety news for The Express-Times and lehighvalleylive.com. She also sometimes covers business news. Followers on X know&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lehigh CountyPublished: Jun. 15, 2026, 3:57 p.m.The incident occurred Sunday afternoon at Pennsylvania Game Lands along Game Warden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6269,119,121,120,591],"class_list":["post-220024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-ala2014032416204504","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-merlinmigration2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220024","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=220024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}