{"id":259673,"date":"2026-08-05T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259673\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:04:09","slug":"16-year-old-shot-in-allentown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259673\/","title":{"rendered":"16-year-old shot in Allentown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-year-old boy was shot Tuesday in Allentown, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded around 10:30 p.m. to South Carlisle and East Union streets for a report of a shooting, Allentown police said in a news release. There, they found the teen with a gunshot wound. He was taken to the hospital to be treated for his injuries, which are non-life threatening.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting is being investigated by the Allentown Police Criminal Investigation Unit. Anyone with information or who may have witnessed the shooting is asked to contact police at 610-437-7721 or make an anonymous tip through the Allentown Police Tip411 app.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s shooting is the latest in several violent incidents this year involving teen victims. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/06\/08\/allentown-shooting-death-reaction\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In June<\/a>, 17-year-old Ja\u2019meer Roberts was killed in a shooting at North Jay and East North streets on the city\u2019s East Side.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/05\/19\/allentown-mcdonalds-shooting-union-boulevard-victim-identified\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In May<\/a>, 18-year-old Tymell Millan-Mason of Bethlehem was shot outside the McDonald\u2019s on Union Boulevard in Allentown. He died three days later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/07\/17\/we-are-still-losing-too-many-lives-following-surge-in-youth-homicides-in-allentown-city-leaders-and-activists-call-for-action\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In a forum last month<\/a>, activists called on the state Legislature to enact stricter gun control laws, and highlighted the need for more community outreach to youth at risk of gun violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old boy was shot Tuesday in Allentown, police said. Officers responded around 10:30 p.m. to South Carlisle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-259673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-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\/259673","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=259673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}