{"id":303208,"date":"2026-10-09T16:58:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303208\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T16:58:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:58:50","slug":"south-whitehall-man-died-from-gunshot-wounds-coroner-says-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303208\/","title":{"rendered":"South Whitehall man died from gunshot wounds, coroner says \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published October 09. 2026 09:35AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">A 41-year-old South Whitehall Township has died after sustaining gunshot wounds around 8:15 p.m. Sept. 29 in the area of South Front and East Cumberland streets, Allentown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">According to Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio, Jaroe J. Perry was pronounced dead at 9 p.m. the same night in the Emergency Department at St. Luke\u2019s University Hospital, Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Perry died as a result of gunshot wounds, Buglio said in a press release. He said he is ruling his death a homicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Buglio said as with all criminal investigations, an autopsy was scheduled to be completed Sept. 30 at the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office and Forensic Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">In addition to the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office, the Allentown Police Department, the Lehigh County Homicide Task Force and the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office are investigating this incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published October 09. 2026 09:35AM A 41-year-old South Whitehall Township has died after sustaining gunshot wounds around 8:15&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-303208","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\/303208","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=303208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}