{"id":22891,"date":"2025-11-03T02:45:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/22891\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T02:45:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:45:54","slug":"da-charges-3rd-man-in-connection-with-fatal-2024-shooting-at-allentown-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/22891\/","title":{"rendered":"DA charges 3rd man in connection with fatal 2024 shooting at Allentown park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 A Pike County man will face homicide charges alongside two men from the Lehigh Valley in connection with a fatal shooting last year in Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>Wilmer Esequiel Marte-Tavarez, 22, of Lords Valley, was arrested Friday and charged with homicide, conspiracy to commit homicide and tampering with evidence, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Marte-Tavarez and two others are accused of fatally shooting Angel Martinez-Velez, 25, of Allentown, on June 1, 2024, on the basketball court at Fountain Park.<\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;Police used surveillance cameras and license-plate readers to track two vehicles that fled the park to a defendant&#8217;s home on East Court Street within hours of the shooting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh County District Attorney&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>Grelvis Estevez Cabrera, 28, of Bethlehem, and Carlos Nathaniel Landesta-Agramonte, 19, of Allentown, were <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleynews.com\/allentown\/2-charged-in-connection-with-fountain-park-killing-in-allentown\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">charged days later<\/a> after turning themselves in to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Police used surveillance cameras and license-plate readers to track, within hours of the shooting, two vehicles that fled the park to Landesta-Agramonte\u2019s home on East Court Street, the district attorney\u2019s office said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Landesta-Agramonte and Cabrera were linked to one vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance footage showed a third person \u2014 identified as the shooter \u2014 removing items from the other car; police obtained fingerprint evidence from the vehicle that linked Marte-Tavarez to the shooting, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Marte-Tavarez on Monday was in Lehigh County Jail without the possibility of bail. Cabrera and Landesta-Agramonte are awaiting trial. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 A Pike County man will face homicide charges alongside two men from the Lehigh Valley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,15292,121,2278,15293,120,15294,2280],"class_list":{"0":"post-22891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-cameras","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-killing","12":"tag-allentown-license-plate-reader","13":"tag-allentown-news","14":"tag-allentown-park","15":"tag-allentown-shooting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22891","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=22891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}