A man was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of his 24-year-old brother in Wilson Borough, Northampton County, on Sunday, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n
Officials said Thuan Vo, 21, was charged with criminal homicide after being accused of shooting his brother in the neck inside a home on Birch Street.<\/p>\n
At approximately 12:10 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 20, police responded to a report of a gunshot victim. According to prosecutors, Vo told 911 dispatchers that he accidentally shot his brother.<\/p>\n
When police arrived, they found the 24-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital Anderson Campus for treatment, where he died later that morning.<\/p>\n
While at the scene, officers learned that Vo fired the shot that struck his brother. He was then arrested and charged with criminal homicide, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
Vo was denied bail, according to officials.<\/p>\n
According to prosecutors, the charge includes intentionally killing another person as well as causing another person’s death through criminal recklessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of his 24-year-old brother in Wilson Borough, Northampton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,434],"class_list":["post-291681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-northampton-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291681","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=291681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}