{"id":310724,"date":"2026-10-20T18:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310724\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T18:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:56:10","slug":"man-charged-in-fathers-stabbing-death-in-whitehall-township-faces-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310724\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged in father’s stabbing death in Whitehall Township faces trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 21-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing his 40-year-old father last month in Whitehall Township faces trial in county court.<\/a><\/p>\n

Following a preliminary hearing Tuesday, a Lehigh County district judge determined there was enough evidence against Daniel Latorre Jr. to face trial in Lehigh County Court, according to Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin Holihan.<\/p>\n

Latorre is charged in the Sept. 15 fatal stabbing of Daniel Latorre Sr.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Township police were called to their house in the 700 block of Second Street about 8:30 p.m. after Daniel Latorre Jr. called 911 and said he stabbed his father with a pocket knife, according to court documents. He also told police the incident was caught on video.<\/p>\n

The elder Latorre was found on the kitchen floor of the home suffering from multiple stab wounds, according to authorities. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died from his injuries. Latorre Sr.\u2019s wife suffered a laceration to her right hand during the incident, police said.<\/p>\n

Latorre Jr. told authorities he watched his parents argue, and he recorded it on his phone, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t mean to do it bro, I just pulled out my knife and stabbed him in the stomach,\u201d he told police, according to an affidavit.<\/p>\n

Latorre Jr. remains charged with homicide and aggravated assault. District Judge Kyle Miller dismissed a charge of prohibited possession of a weapon, the DA said in a news release.<\/p>\n

He remains in Lehigh County Jail without bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 21-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing his 40-year-old father last month in Whitehall Township faces trial in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,433,182,139,28,432,1654],"class_list":["post-310724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-whitehall-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310724","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=310724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}