{"id":296604,"date":"2026-09-30T03:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296604\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T03:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:28:09","slug":"second-shooting-in-allentown-leaves-1-hospitalized-allentown-area-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296604\/","title":{"rendered":"Second shooting in Allentown leaves 1 hospitalized | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Police responded to a second shooting that injured at least one person in Allentown Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>A Lehigh County emergency dispatcher confirmed a police incident shortly after 8 p.m. in the area of South Front and East Susquehanna streets.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Second shooting in Allentown leaves one hospitalized\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"828\" height=\"466\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790738888_386_6abc6711dac13.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>One victim was transported to the hospital, according to Lehigh County Coroner Dan Buglio. The extent of their injuries is unknown at this time.<\/p>\n<p>A woman who lives close to the scene called 69 News to report hearing multiple gunshots.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Allentown released the following statement on Facebook:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply saddened by the shootings in our community and are keeping those impacted in our thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Office of Violence Prevention is working with our public safety and community partners to support those affected and help prevent further violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease do not retaliate. Violence only creates more harm. Let\u2019s continue to look out for one another and keep Allentown safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Allentown Police are investigating the shooting. No further details have been released.<\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/lehighvalley\/lehigh-county\/allentown-area\/coroner-1-dead-following-shooting-in-allentown\/article_4f992d67-adb5-4e02-8412-2663f70b8421.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"Coroner: 1 dead following shooting in Allentown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Coroner: 1 dead following shooting in Allentown\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6abc55257bbf2.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"tnt-summary\">The shooting occurred on the 600 block of Gordon Street around 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>A separate shooting Tuesday night just before 7 p.m. left at least one person dead.<\/p>\n<p>According to Allentown Police, it happened on the 600 block of Gordon Street.<\/p>\n<p>Officers say they located a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead on scene by Lehigh County Coroner Dan Buglio.<\/p>\n<p>It is not known if the two incidents are related in any way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Police responded to a second shooting that injured at least one person in Allentown Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,6753,4824,6111,433,206,220,890],"class_list":["post-296604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-emergency","tag-gunshots","tag-hospital","tag-lehigh-county","tag-police","tag-shooting","tag-victim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296604","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=296604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}