Published October 01. 2026 10:30AM<\/p>\n
Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan as announced two Allentown men have been convicted of homicide in a deadly shooting that happened in 2025. David Isiah Rivera, 27 and Pedro Junior Paulino, 37, were convicted of third-degree homicide in the death of Ivan Diaz Jr., 32, of Lower Macungie Township, Feb. 2of that year.<\/p>\n
Three other people also were shot.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth men were also convicted of three counts each of attempted murder and three counts each of aggravated assault,\u201d according to the press release.<\/p>\n
The trial started Sept. 14. Sentencing is scheduled Nov. 9.<\/p>\n
Social media helped police focus on Rivera and Paulino. Just after 4 a.m. Feb. 2, 2025, Allentown Police were called to the BKK Lounge, an after-hours club, 1500 Union Blvd., for reports of a shooting with multiple victims.<\/p>\n
Four people, one woman and three men, including Diaz, were shot.<\/p>\n
Diaz died from multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide by Lehigh County Coroner Daniel Buglio.<\/p>\n
Witnesses told police of an argument inside the club.<\/p>\n
Club security stepped in to break up the argument. Paulino and Rivera got handguns from their car.<\/p>\n
\u201cPaulino was identified on video as firing a handgun in the direction of the victims. Rivera also produced a handgun from his sweatshirt pocket and also fired that weapon at multiple victims,\u201d according to the press release.<\/p>\n
Police found two different caliber shell casings at the scene.<\/p>\n
Paulino and Rivera were identified as the shooters. Both men were identified through distinctive clothing and tattoos as well as social media posts, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
Rivera faces a mandatory life sentence without parole. A sentence of at least 30 additional years in state prison is also possible.<\/p>\n
Paulino faces a possible sentence of 50 to 100 years in state prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published October 01. 2026 10:30AM Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan as announced two Allentown men have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-297797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297797","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=297797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}