{"id":232682,"date":"2026-07-01T11:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232682\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:24:09","slug":"homicide-armed-dangerous-barefoot-person-of-interest-sought-after-pa-apartment-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232682\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide: Armed, Dangerous, Barefoot Person Of Interest Sought After PA Apartment Stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swatara Township Police were dispatched to the Chestnut Pointe apartment complex at 3655 Chambers Hill Road on Tuesday, June 30 at 8:46 p.m. for a reported homicide, according to the department.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators identified Esteban Paulino Villegas as a person of interest who fled the scene on foot before officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Villegas should be considered armed and dangerous and may be experiencing a mental health issue.<\/p>\n<p>He was last seen wearing a white tank top, gray sweatpants, and no shoes, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are actively searching for Villegas and asked anyone who sees him not to approach him. Instead, call 911 immediately, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone wishing to submit an anonymous tip about Villegas&#8217; whereabouts can do so through the Swatara Township Police Department&#8217;s website at SwataraPolice.org.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the homicide investigation remains active, and additional information will be released as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e-click-here-follow-btn\" data-testid=\"bottom-paragraph\">\n            <a class=\"e-email-signup\" js-follow-button=\"\" data-testid=\"article-click-here-to-subscribe\">Click here<\/a><br \/>\n            to follow Daily Voice<\/p>\n<p>              Allentown<\/p>\n<p>            and receive free news updates.\n          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swatara Township Police were dispatched to the Chestnut Pointe apartment complex at 3655 Chambers Hill Road on Tuesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-232682","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\/232682","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=232682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}