{"id":290411,"date":"2026-09-20T18:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290411\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T18:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:30:10","slug":"one-man-charged-with-homicide-in-alleged-accidental-shooting-that-killed-brother-in-wilson-borough-easton-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290411\/","title":{"rendered":"One man charged with homicide in alleged accidental shooting that killed brother in Wilson Borough | Easton Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WILSON BOROUGH, Pa. &#8211; Northampton County District Attorney\u00a0Stephen Baratta says a Wilson Borough shooting that happened just after midnight Saturday was allegedly accidental.<\/p>\n<p>A man claiming responsibility for the incident says he accidentally shot his 24-year-old brother, according to District Attorney Baratta.<\/p>\n<p>Northampton County Communications says the shooting happened in the 2200 block of Birch Street, injuring one person who was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The DA says there is an open charge of homicide as of Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Stay tuned to 69 News for updates, or go to <a href=\"http:\/\/WFMZ.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WFMZ.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILSON BOROUGH, Pa. &#8211; Northampton County District Attorney\u00a0Stephen Baratta says a Wilson Borough shooting that happened just after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,6290,434],"class_list":["post-290411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-easton-area","tag-northampton-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290411","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=290411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}