{"id":303134,"date":"2026-10-09T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303134\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:50:09","slug":"police-2-men-shot-in-bethlehem-1-has-life-threatening-injuries-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303134\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: 2 men shot in Bethlehem, 1 has life-threatening injuries | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Bethlehem Police said a man has life-threatening injuries after he and another man were shot Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were sent to to the 1100 block of Merriman Court for a report of a gunshot victim shortly after 6 p.m. for a report of a gunshot victim, the Bethlehem Police Department said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found a man with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound at the 1200 block of Flower Drive, city police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said crews brought the man to a local hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Several minutes later, police were told a second man with a gunshot wound had arrived at a local hospital, according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p>City police said the second man is reported to have life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe both victims were injured during the same incident. At this time, no suspects are in custody, city police said.<\/p>\n<p>The Bethlehem Police Department said it is actively investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are asking for the public&#8217;s assistance and encourage anyone who witnessed the incident or who may have information that could assist with the investigation to contact police.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call the Bethlehem Police Department at 610-865-7000 or email <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/lehighvalley\/lehigh-county\/bethlehem-area\/police-2-men-shot-in-bethlehem-1-has-life-threatening-injuries\/mailto:policeintel@bethlehem-pa.gov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">policeintel@bethlehem-pa.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Bethlehem Police said a man has life-threatening injuries after he and another man were shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,28013,1021,206,220],"class_list":["post-303134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-gunshot","tag-investigation","tag-police","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303134","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=303134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}