Published July 25. 2026 08:56AM<\/p>\n
A homicide that occurred Friday afternoon in Northampton County is under investigation by the Pennsylvania State Police Troop M Major Case Team.<\/p>\n
Around 1:48 p.m., troopers were dispatched to the 1200 block of Old Gate Road in Allen Township for the report of a domestic incident at a residence.<\/p>\n
Upon arrival, it was determined that a 27-year-old man had been shot. The suspect, a 25-year-old man, fled the scene in a 2023 orange Kia Forte, police said.<\/p>\n
The Kia was spotted by troopers Near Race Street and Airport Road in Hanover Township. They activated the lights and siren of their marked patrol vehicle.<\/p>\n
Police said the Kia fled and the troopers pursued the car, which eventually returned to the crime scene, where the suspect was taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n
The victim was transported from the residence by Northampton Regional EMS to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:45 p.m., police said.<\/p>\n
Charges against the suspect are pending, according to police.<\/p>\n
Neither the victim nor the suspect was identified by police in a release issued Friday evening.<\/p>\n
Those assisting the Troop M Major Case Team in the investigation are the Northampton County District Attorney\u2019s Office; Northampton Regional EMS; Troop M Forensic Services Unit; Troop M Collision Analysis Reconstruction Unit; Troop M Bethlehem; and Belfast Patrol Unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published July 25. 2026 08:56AM A homicide that occurred Friday afternoon in Northampton County is under investigation by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-251844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251844","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=251844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}