WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. – First responders rushed to the home on the 700 block of Second Street around 8:30 Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Officers say they found 40-year-old Daniel Latorre Sr. on the floor with multiple stab wounds. His wife was also treated for non-life-threatening cut wounds.<\/p>\n
Latorre Sr. died an hour later at the hospital.<\/p>\n
Thomas Girardi, who has lived on this block for over 60 years, watched the emergency response unfold.<\/p>\n
“This is a quiet street, very quiet. I mean, you come out here at 3:00 in the morning, sit on the porch, and there won’t be a soul that would bother you,” Girardi says.<\/p>\n
“It’s so quiet. That’s why it’s so. It’s hard to believe what happened,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
According to court paperwork, 21-year-old Daniel Latorre Jr. recorded a verbal disagreement on his phone between his father and his father’s wife before pulling out a pocket knife.<\/p>\n
On the 911 call, he told dispatchers, \u201cI stabbed him.\u201d<\/p>\n
During police questioning, he also confessed, \u201cI didn’t mean to do it, bro, I just pulled out my knife and stabbed him in the stomach.\u201d<\/p>\n
“I knew it was bad, as you can see, cops, ambulance people running in and out. But you know, not to that extent,” Girardi says.<\/p>\n
Girardi says he didn’t realize the severity of the situation until he got to work the next morning.<\/p>\n
“The receptionist, you know, I told ’em what happened, and then about an hour later, she came out, and she said, hey, Tom, I just want to tell you your neighbor died. I said, what? I said, are you serious? He died? Danny died?” Girardi says.<\/p>\n
As investigators work to piece together what led to the stabbing, Girardi says his heart breaks for the family.<\/p>\n
“I just worry about her now because I don’t know how she’s gonna handle, you know, being by herself. I mean, they’re both gone,” Girardi says.<\/p>\n
The coroner has ruled Latorre Sr.’s death a homicide, with an autopsy scheduled for Thursday.<\/p>\n
Latorre Jr. is being held at the Lehigh County Jail without bail and faces charges including criminal homicide and assault. His preliminary hearing has been scheduled for September 21st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. – First responders rushed to the home on the 700 block of Second Street around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232],"class_list":["post-287851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287851","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=287851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}