{"id":260269,"date":"2026-08-06T11:26:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260269\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T11:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:26:33","slug":"allentown-man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-2022-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260269\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown man sentenced to life in prison for 2022 killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Allentown man was sentenced to life in prison for a 2022 killing in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Rosa, 32, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/05\/15\/allentown-man-found-guilty-in-2022-killing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was convicted in May<\/a> of first-degree murder and carrying a firearm without a license in the killing of Twon Abner, 33, on July 28, 2022, Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin Holihan said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate case tried together with the homicide, Rosa also was convicted of felony counts of witness intimidation and criminal use of a communication facility. The DA said Rosa used a computer tablet while in Lehigh County Jail to persuade a witness not to testify in the homicide case.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh County Judge Robert Steinberg sentenced Rosa to an additional 10 to 20 years in prison for those charges.<\/p>\n<p>Rosa also is serving a state prison sentence following a conviction for a robbery that occurred after the murder.<\/p>\n<p>Abner was shot in the 500 block of West Allen Street. Despite lifesaving efforts, he was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Allentown man was sentenced to life in prison for a 2022 killing in the city. Steven Rosa,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-260269","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\/260269","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=260269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}