ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A 29-year-old man who was shot and killed in Allentown Monday night has been identified.<\/p>\n
Jose A. Rivera was pronounced dead Monday at a local hospital, Lehigh County Coroner Daniel Buglio says in a news release.<\/p>\n
Buglio says Rivera\u2019s cause of death is a gunshot wound to the torso and that he ruled the manner of death a homicide.<\/p>\n
Officers from the Allentown Police Department were sent to the 700 block of North Ninth Street for the shooting around 5:13 p.m., according to a news release from the police.<\/p>\n
The Allentown Police Department is investigating the shooting in coordination with the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office, Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office, and Lehigh County Homicide Task Force.<\/p>\n
Officers say there is no immediate threat to the public.<\/p>\n
The Allentown Police Department is asking anyone with information to call Detectives at 610-437-7721 or the Police Desk at 610-437-7753 (ext. 1). Additionally, anonymous text tips can be sent via the Tip411 App available on the Allentown Police Facebook Page<\/a> or via the Allentown Police Department website.<\/a><\/p>\n \nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A 29-year-old man who was shot and killed in Allentown Monday night has been identified.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,457,130176,433,220],"class_list":["post-320461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-homicide","tag-jose-a-rivera","tag-lehigh-county","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320461","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=320461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}