{"id":286528,"date":"2026-09-15T15:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286528\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T15:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:12:08","slug":"allentown-man-dies-more-than-year-after-being-shot-in-philadelphia-coroner-says-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286528\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown man dies more than year after being shot in Philadelphia, coroner says | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; An Allentown man has died, more than a year after being shot in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Jose A. Ramos Cepeda, 39, was pronounced dead on Sunday afternoon at a local hospital, Lehigh County Coroner Daniel Buglio said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Buglio said the cause of death is complications of gunshot wounds, and the manner of death is being ruled a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, shortly before 9:30 a.m. in the 1500 block of East Luzerne Street in Philadelphia, according to Buglio.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office &amp; Forensic Center, the Philadelphia Police Department and the Philadelphia County District Attorney\u2019s Office are investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; An Allentown man has died, more than a year after being shot in Philadelphia. Jose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,15114,457,119313,1024,69,595],"class_list":["post-286528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-gunshot-wounds","tag-homicide","tag-jose-a-ramos-cepeda","tag-lehigh-county-coroner","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286528","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=286528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}