{"id":271468,"date":"2026-08-24T21:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271468\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T21:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:20:12","slug":"woman-accused-of-shooting-boyfriends-adult-daughter-to-death-in-freemansburg-northampton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271468\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman accused of shooting boyfriend&#8217;s adult daughter to death in Freemansburg, Northampton County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, August 24, 2026 8:49PM<\/p>\n<p>A woman is accused of shooting and killing her boyfriend&#8217;s adult daughter, then shooting her boyfriend as well, in Freemansburg, Northampton County.<\/p>\n<p>WPVI<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FREEMANSBURG, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; A woman is accused of shooting and killing her boyfriend&#8217;s adult daughter, then shooting her boyfriend as well, in Freemansburg, Northampton County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Lacole Dotson, 27, is charged with murder and multiple other offenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The coroner identified the woman killed as 27-year-old Atirah Steed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The shooting happened just after 6 a.m. on Market Street on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 45-year-old man who was also shot remains in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Dotson went before a judge and was denied bail.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, August 24, 2026 8:49PM A woman is accused of shooting and killing her boyfriend&#8217;s adult daughter, then&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[114291,153,155,154],"class_list":["post-271468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-114291","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271468","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=271468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}