{"id":296616,"date":"2026-09-30T03:52:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296616\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T03:52:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:52:37","slug":"allentown-shooting-leaves-1-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296616\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown shooting leaves 1 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person is dead in a shooting Tuesday evening in Center City Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the 600 block of Gordon Street at about 6:53 p.m. and found a male with multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Assistant Police Chief Michael Becker.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting is under investigation. Becker said no additional information would be released Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call city detectives at 610-437-7721, or the police desk at 610-437-7753 Ext. 1. Anonymous tips can be sent via the Tip411 Appor on the Allentown police website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allentownpa.gov\/Police.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allentownpa.gov\/Police<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Later Tuesday evening, police were responding to a second shooting on the city\u2019s South Side, on South Front Street near South Filmore Street, according to emergency radio dispatches. There were no details immediately available about that shooting.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person is dead in a shooting Tuesday evening in Center City Allentown. Police were called to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-296616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296616","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=296616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}