<\/p>\n Neighbors react after off-duty Philadelphia police officer charged in fatal domestic shooting<\/a><\/p>\n
The Lehigh County coroner identified the victim as Shakair Moncrieffe, 27. He died at the hospital of multiple gunshot wounds, the coroner said.<\/p>\n
Police say Moncrieffe and a boy were at the home on Old Gate Drive on Friday afternoon when the boy says Moncrieffe threatened him. The boy contacted several family members, including Cummings, who later came to the home, the paperwork says.<\/p>\n
Cummings and Moncrieffe went inside the home, and witnesses say they heard a loud noise inside, police say. They told police they saw Cummings trying to stand up and Moncrieffe pushing him.<\/p>\n
The boy went inside and punched Moncrieffe in the face twice, as Moncrieffe “squared up” with him, according to the affidavit of probable cause. Cummings then shot Moncrieffe in the head multiple times and fled the home, police say.<\/p>\n
Troopers spotted Cummings in an orange Kia Forte, weaving in and out of traffic. They turned on their lights and sirens and Cummings continued to flee, hitting speeds of 100 mph in a 35 mph zone, police say.<\/p>\n
Police continued following him as he returned to the scene and stopped in front of the house. A handgun fell out of the driver’s side and he was arrested without further incident, police say.<\/p>\n
He admitted to shooting Moncrieffe, his uncle, multiple times, and told police the shooting was in self-defense, authorities say. He told police he believed Moncrieffe was reaching for Cummings’ gun which was in his front pants pocket, and that’s when Cummings pulled out the gun and shot Moncrieffe.<\/p>\n
Cummings was charged with criminal homicide and fleeing\/eluding police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLEN TWP., Pa. — The off-duty police officer charged in a deadly shooting in a Northampton County neighborhood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,31,5750],"class_list":["post-252980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime","tag-nazareth-northampton-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252980","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=252980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}