{"id":264656,"date":"2026-08-13T15:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264656\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T15:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:56:42","slug":"allentown-police-officer-fatally-shoots-loose-dog-that-was-biting-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264656\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown police officer fatally shoots loose dog that was biting people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Allentown police officer shot and killed a dog that was loose and biting people Wednesday afternoon in the city, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Police went to the 1900 block of Turner Street about 2:10 p.m. for a report of a loose dog biting multiple people, city police said in a news release. When an officer got there, the dog charged toward them, and the officer shot the dog, killing it, the release states.<\/p>\n<p>Three people who were bit by the dog suffered moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Allentown police officer shot and killed a dog that was loose and biting people Wednesday afternoon in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-264656","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-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264656","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=264656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}