{"id":264642,"date":"2026-08-13T15:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264642\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T15:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:32:06","slug":"allentown-police-dog-shot-killed-by-officer-after-it-charged-toward-them-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264642\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown Police: Dog shot, killed by officer after it charged toward them | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Allentown Police say an officer discharged their duty weapon and killed a dog after it charged at them.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the 1900 block of Turner Street for the report of a loose dog biting multiple people, the Allentown Police Department said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>City police said officers found the dog, which charged toward an officer.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the officer discharged their duty weapon, killing the dog.<\/p>\n<p>Police said three bite victims with moderate injuries were located.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is active and ongoing, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said there will be no further comment at this time related to the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Allentown Police say an officer discharged their duty weapon and killed a dog after it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,11280,2662,28],"class_list":["post-264642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-animal","tag-dog","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264642","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=264642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}