A 15-year-old boy is in custody in connection with a shooting that critically injured a Bethlehem man late Friday afternoon, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Bethlehem police were called to the 1100 block of Maple at about 5:30 p.m. for a report of a person that was injured, according to a news release from city police Capt. William Audelo.<\/p>\n
When they arrived, police found a 21-year-old man with a gunshot wound inside a residence. He was taken to a hospital with what are believed to be life-threatening injuries, Audelo said.<\/p>\n
Police recovered a .22-caliber firearm at the scene. Shortly after that, they found a 15-year-old boy believed to be involved in the shooting and took him into custody, according to Audelo.<\/p>\n
Due to the boy\u2019s age, police are not releasing his identity.<\/p>\n
Audelo said police continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n
The shooting on the quiet residential street in the heart of the city drew police to the neighborhood just as trick-or-treating in the city was about to get under way.<\/p>\n
No further details were immediately available late Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy is in custody in connection with a shooting that critically injured a Bethlehem man late…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,1391,202,182,139,434,28,432],"class_list":["post-318095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318095","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=318095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}