{"id":268657,"date":"2026-08-20T05:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T05:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268657\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T05:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T05:41:13","slug":"police-investigating-after-16-year-old-boy-found-shot-in-allentown-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268657\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating after 16-year-old boy found shot in Allentown, Pa."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are investigating after a 16-year-old boy was found shot in Allentown late Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police were called to the scene in the area of East Union and South Carlisle streets around 10:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators say they quickly located the teen and transported him to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He is being treated for non life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At least ten shell casings were found at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is not clear if anyone was arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The shooting remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating after a 16-year-old boy was found shot in Allentown late Tuesday night. Police were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,113265,206,3842],"class_list":["post-268657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-east-union","tag-police","tag-shot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268657","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=268657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}