An Allentown man accused of killing a man on his front porch late September in the city now faces trial in county court.<\/p>\n
A Lehigh County district judge on Tuesday determined there was enough evidence for Abdidahir Nieves to face trial in the Sept. 29 homicide of 59-year-old Mark Little, according to a Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s office news release. Nieves, who had his preliminary hearing Tuesday, remains charged with homicide.<\/p>\n
Little was shot on the front porch of his home in the 600 block of West Gordon Street. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Nieves, 39, was seen on surveillance footage walking directly to the area before the shooting, the DA\u2019s office said. Additional footage showed Nieves, wearing an outfit a 911 caller described was worn by the suspected shooter, arriving at his home in the city about 30 minutes later, officials said. His home was searched, and authorities found the yellow ski mask the caller had described, and a handgun of the same caliber as the one used in the shooting, the DA\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n
Nieves remains in Lehigh County Jail without bail.<\/p>\n
The shooting was the second homicide that happened in Allentown that night. An hour later, a 41-year-old South Whitehall Township man was fatally shot outside a home in the area of South Front and East Cumberland streets.\n<\/p>\n
Barrett Griggs, 44, of Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill County, is charged in that homicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Allentown man accused of killing a man on his front porch late September in the city now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,46,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-321729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-courts","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321729","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=321729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}