{"id":273391,"date":"2026-08-27T18:45:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273391\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T18:45:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T18:45:37","slug":"whitehall-man-who-killed-himself-after-shooting-girlfriend-is-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273391\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitehall man who killed himself after shooting girlfriend is identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have identified the 34-year-old man who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/08\/26\/man-34-killed-in-shooting-in-lehigh-county-apartment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fatally shot himself after shooting his girlfriend<\/a>, injuring her Tuesday night in Whitehall Township.<\/p>\n<p>Eddie G. Estrada was pronounced dead just before 11 p.m. in his apartment in the 1200 block of Pericles Place, Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio said. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office. Investigators recovered the gun at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Estrada shot his girlfriend twice about 10:20 p.m. He called 911, admitted to shooting her and then shot himself, DA Gavin Holihan said. The woman was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment of her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>No one else was in the apartment during the incident, and investigators said there is no indication anyone else was involved.<\/p>\n<p>Whitehall police and the DA\u2019s office are investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities have identified the 34-year-old man who fatally shot himself after shooting his girlfriend, injuring her Tuesday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,202,433,182,139,28,432,1653,1654],"class_list":["post-273391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-whitehall-area","tag-whitehall-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273391","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=273391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}