ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Two arrests have been made in Sunday night’s shooting in Allentown, officials tell 69 News.<\/p>\n
The shooting left a 27-year-old Bethlehem man dead. Officials say another man was shot and injured.<\/p>\n
45-year-old Adalberto Morales-Ortiz, from Bethlehem, and 21-year-old Axel Fontanez-Morales, from Whitehall, both are charged with homicide, attempted homicide and aggravated assault, according to Allentown police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Morales-Ortiz was injured, police said, but they didn’t elaborate on the nature of his injuries.<\/p>\n
Shots rang out in the 400 block of West Tilghman Street around 9:30 p.m. Mother’s Day night. Several evidence markers of apparent bullet casings could be seen all throughout the parking lot — and more by the entrance — of C-Town Supermarket.<\/p>\n
“This is Fourth and Tilghman, it’s C-Town right there. Our grandmothers go shopping right there,” Michael Richardson, with Promise Neighborhoods of the Lehigh Valley, an advocacy group against gun violence, said.<\/p>\n
Police so far aren’t releasing the victim’s identity, but several neighbors tell 69 News they heard as many as 20 gunshots.<\/p>\n
“Back in the house. Because I was sitting on my patio,” Jozeph said. “Very close. I thought they were fireworks, but I know gunshots.”<\/p>\n
Other neighbors say they witnessed a chase in the parking lot of the C-Town Supermarkets. They say the man who was shot got in his car and drove down the alley behind the parking lot. District Attorney Jim Martin confirms that.<\/p>\n
Witnesses say the victim made it down to Green Street before crashing into a parked car. A few people who saw that tell 69 News someone opened the car door and they saw the victim, who was wearing a mask, unresponsive inside.<\/p>\n
More evidence markers could be found about halfway down the alley toward Green Street.<\/p>\n
Richardson, who calls himself a violence interrupter, in addition to being a supervisor with Promise Neighborhoods, says right around this time of year, when the weather warms up, the advocates always fear more gun violence.<\/p>\n
“Looking forward to it’s going to be hot and there’s going to be shootings,” he said. “That’s not the way to live.”<\/p>\n
Promise Neighborhoods encourages members of the community to join them for their monthly Peace Walk. It’s held from 2-4 p.m. the last Saturday of the month.<\/p>\n
The walk starts out at the Promise Neighborhoods of the Lehigh Valley campus, on 333 West Union Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Two arrests have been made in Sunday night’s shooting in Allentown, officials tell 69 News.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,31,805,10466],"class_list":{"0":"post-30989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-lehighvalley","14":"tag-week-in-review"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30989","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=30989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}