{"id":270259,"date":"2026-08-22T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270259\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:56:10","slug":"police-1-killed-1-critically-hurt-in-northampton-county-shooting-crime-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270259\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: 1 killed, 1 critically hurt in Northampton County shooting | Crime Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FREEMANSBURG, Pa. &#8212; One person is dead and another is in critical condition after a shooting in Northampton County early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Freemansburg police said officers responded to a reported domestic incident on Market Street around 6:05 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, officers confiscated a handgun and initiated life-saving measures on one victim. Authorities confirmed two people were shot, leaving one dead and the other critically injured.<\/p>\n<p>The critically injured victim is currently in the hospital being treated for gunshot wounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Three children were inside the home at the time of the incident, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>One person has been taken into custody and there is no threat to the public at this time, according to authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lower Saucon Township Police, Bethlehem Township Police, and Pennsylvania State Police assisted Freemansburg police at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police Troop M\u2018s Major Case Team are opening a homicide investigation, according to Trooper Nathan Branosky.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FREEMANSBURG, Pa. &#8212; One person is dead and another is in critical condition after a shooting in Northampton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,31,434],"class_list":["post-270259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime","tag-northampton-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270259","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=270259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}