{"id":271735,"date":"2026-08-25T05:52:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T05:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271735\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T05:52:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T05:52:27","slug":"allentown-pa-shooting-4-injured-suspect-turns-self-in-following-shooting-near-muhlenberg-college-on-turner-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271735\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown, Pa. shooting: 4 injured, suspect turns self in following shooting near Muhlenberg College on Turner Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; Police in <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/place\/allentown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Allentown<\/a>, Pennsylvania, are investigating a shooting incident that injured four people and put a nearby college on lockdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It happened around 7 p.m. Tuesday near 18th and West Turner streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Neighbors said they heard about eight gunshots and were told by officers to stay inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan, a fistfight sparked a shooting outside of a home on the block. Two groups of people gathered after two men agreed to fight each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities say three women and a man were shot. They are all expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;We understand that Muhlenberg College was briefly locked down. Our investigation has yielded no connection to Muhlenberg College and no threat to the Muhlenberg College Community,&#8221; Holihan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to investigators, Axel Yadiel Suarez-Vidal, 22, was armed and shot into a crowd of people gathered outside a home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Suarez-Vidal surrendered on Wednesday morning and has been charged with four counts of criminal attempted homicide, aggravated assault and reckless endangering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No additional suspects are being sought, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This case is being investigated by the Allentown Police Department and the Lehigh County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the Allentown Police Department Criminal Investigations Division at 610-437-7721<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; Police in Allentown, Pennsylvania, are investigating a shooting incident that injured four people and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[114426,119,121,120,114421,19097,114423,433,10067,114425,28,114420,114424,114422],"class_list":["post-271735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-114426","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-pa-shooting","tag-allentown-pennsylvania","tag-allentown-shooting-today","tag-lehigh-county","tag-muhlenberg-college","tag-muhlenberg-college-lockdown","tag-pennsylvania","tag-shooting-allentown","tag-shooting-near-muhlenberg-college","tag-west-turner-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271735","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=271735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}