since his July 22 arrest<\/a>, hours after 22-year-old Jerkera Battle was fatally shot in the hallway of her apartment in the 700 block of West Turner Street.<\/p>\nA witness inside the home told police Makowka entered the apartment through the roof access door, officials said. The roof was accessible via the fire escape.<\/p>\n
Authorities allege Makowka repeatedly shot Battle with an AR-15 rifle before pointing the gun at a man in Battle’s bedroom, towards her infant son.<\/p>\n
The man grabbed the weapon as Makowka fired; Makowka dropped the rifle and fled after running out of ammunition, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
Surveillance footage recorded Makowka arriving outside Battle\u2019s apartment about 3:45 a.m. July 22 in his Honda Civic wearing a sweatshirt and carrying a rifle case. He’s seen running out the front door of the building without the sweatshirt or case, which were recovered on the building’s roof, police said.<\/p>\n
Makowka was extradited to Lehigh County after being arrested around 6:30 a.m. that day in a park in Lansdowne, Delaware County.<\/p>\n
Lehigh County Coroner Daniel Buglio has ruled the death a homicide. <\/p>\n
Makowka\u2019s trial has not yet been scheduled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 A Lehigh County judge on Wednesday upheld all charges \u2014 including homicide and attempted homicide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1815,2276,119,121,2277,2278,2283,2279,120,715,2280,2281,2282],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-adam-makowka","tag-adam-makowka-charged","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-homicide","tag-allentown-killing","tag-allentown-man-charged-with-murder","tag-allentown-murder","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-police","tag-allentown-shooting","tag-jekera-battle-murder","tag-jekera-battle-shot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","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=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}