{"id":303138,"date":"2026-10-09T14:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303138\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T14:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:58:10","slug":"man-convicted-in-labor-day-2024-killing-in-allentown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303138\/","title":{"rendered":"Man convicted in Labor Day 2024 killing in Allentown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Allentown man was found guilty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2024\/09\/03\/man-killed-in-allentown-shooting-lehigh-county-coroner-says\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thursday of killing a man two years ago on Labor Day in the city.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hector Martinez, 27, was convicted following a three-day trial of first-degree murder and possession of a firearm without a license in the Sept. 2, 2024 killing of Terrence Brunson, according to Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin Holihan.<\/p>\n<p>Brunson, 39, was fatally shot while on the front porch of a home in the 500 block of West Liberty Street, according to officials. The shooter, later identified as Martinez, was wearing a face cover, and fled to his home after the shooting, the DA said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Brunson was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died from a single gunshot wound to his chest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/09\/23\/allentown-man-arrested-in-fatal-2024-shooting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martinez was arrested over a year later.<\/a> He will be sentenced next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Allentown man was found guilty Thursday of killing a man two years ago on Labor Day in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,46,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-303138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-courts","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\/303138","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=303138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}