ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A 16-year-old is hurt after a shooting in Allentown.<\/p>\n
It comes amid a recent rash of violent crime involving teenagers. This, despite the city seeing a large drop in violent crime overall.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Allentown police say they responded to East Union and South Carlisle streets around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night for a report of a shooting.<\/p>\n
Police say they found the teen there, and that he was taken to the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
“We’re just heartbroken because we know that events like these are preventable,” said Maggie Hartmann, Lehigh Valley organizer of CeaseFirePA.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the District Attorney’s Office, Allentown saw a 69% decrease in homicides from 2021 to 2025, and the city is on track for a historically low number this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But recent incidents have involved youth, including a couple deadly shootings since May.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“At Ceasefire PA, we firmly believe that the entire community has to come together to combat community violence,” Hartmann said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The\u00a0CeaseFirePA organization says it focuses on policy solutions and making sure there’s funding at the state level to mitigate violence through programs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Last month, the organization hosted a gun violence forum in Allentown.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“In that conversation, the Mayor shared data that shows that violence in Allentown is actually decreasing, however a lot of people in the community are echoing concerns about young people resorting to firearm ownership because they’re scared and I think we’re seeing an uptick in youth violence in certain areas because of that,” said Hartmann.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She tells us there are several organizations, like United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, the Boys and Girls Club, and Promise Neighborhoods.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hartmann says Allentown also allocated money for a violence prevention coordinator.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It’s not clear if anyone was arrested.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is being asked to contact the Allentown Police Criminal Investigation division at 610-437-7721 or make an anonymous tip through the\u00a0Allentown Police Tip411 app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A 16-year-old is hurt after a shooting in Allentown. It comes amid a recent rash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,715],"class_list":["post-259917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259917","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=259917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}