{"id":264667,"date":"2026-08-13T16:20:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264667\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T16:20:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:20:57","slug":"allentown-officer-shoots-kills-dog-after-several-people-bitten-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264667\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown officer shoots, kills dog after several people bitten \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Allentown police officer shot and killed a loose dog after police said the dog bit three people and charged toward an officer.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, officers were called to the 1900 block of Turner Street around 2:09 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026, after receiving a report of a loose dog biting multiple people.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found the dog, which then charged toward an officer, police said. The officer then fired their duty weapon, killing the dog.<\/p>\n<p>Police found three bite victims who suffered moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation. Police said there would be no further information released at this time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Allentown police officer shot and killed a loose dog after police said the dog bit three people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,28],"class_list":["post-264667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264667","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=264667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}