{"id":261306,"date":"2026-08-07T23:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261306\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:24:07","slug":"shooting-in-allentown-injures-one-person-investigation-ongoing-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261306\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting in Allentown injures one person, investigation ongoing | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; Police in Allentown are investigating a shooting that injured one person on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday at approximately 2:49 p.m. Allentown police officers responded to the 700 block of Westminster Street for a shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, officers found a man suffering from a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man was treated on scene and transported to a local hospital by Allentown EMS for treatment, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is active and ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Allentown Police Department is asking anyone with information to call detectives at 610-437-7721, or the police desk at 610-437-7753.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; Police in Allentown are investigating a shooting that injured one person on Friday. On Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,31],"class_list":["post-261306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261306","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=261306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}