ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 The identity of a man who died when he jumped from the Tilghman Street Bridge on Thursday has been released.<\/p>\n
Jaquan Poston, 28, of Allentown, drowned Thursday after witnesses saw him jump into the Lehigh River about 12:40 p.m. Thursday, according to Lehigh County Coroner Dan Buglio.<\/p>\n
Poston\u2019s body was recovered from the river around 4:45 p.m.; he was pronounced dead a half-hour later, Buglio said.<\/p>\n
The river was about 10 feet deep where Poston\u2019s body was found, according to the coroner.<\/p>\n
The manner of his death remains under investigation, Buglio said.<\/p>\n
Allentown Fire Department\u2019s Underwater Recovery and Technical Rescue teams were helped by city police and EMTs, the Whitehall Fire Department\u2019s Dive Team, and Lehigh County\u2019s Special Operations and Drone teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 The identity of a man who died when he jumped from the Tilghman Street Bridge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,2773,2777,2774,644,121,120,715,2775,2778,2776,2779],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-bridge","tag-allentown-bridge-jump","tag-allentown-death","tag-allentown-fire-department","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-police","tag-allentown-suicide","tag-jaquan-poston","tag-lehigh-river","tag-lehigh-river-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111","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=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}