{"id":255424,"date":"2026-07-30T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255424\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:02:09","slug":"man-49-shot-by-police-in-lehigh-township-during-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255424\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 49, shot by police in Lehigh Township during incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 49-year-old man was shot by police Wednesday afternoon in Northampton County.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh Township police were called about 3:50 p.m. to the 4100 block of Heritage Lane for a report of a domestic incident between the man and a 71-year-old woman, according to a state police news release. When police entered the home, he confronted them, the release states.<\/p>\n<p>Police used a Taser and also shot the man, police said. He was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>State police are investigating the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 49-year-old man was shot by police Wednesday afternoon in Northampton County. Lehigh Township police were called about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,202,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-255424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255424","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=255424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}