{"id":322507,"date":"2026-11-06T17:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T17:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322507\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T17:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T17:06:10","slug":"allentown-man-pleads-guilty-in-quick-draw-killing-in-catasauqua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322507\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown man pleads guilty in &#8216;quick draw&#8217; killing in Catasauqua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Allentown man admitted Thursday to killing a man during a game of \u201cquick draw\u201d almost a year ago in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/06\/24\/catasauqua-quick-draw-homicide-preliminary-hearing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Catasauqua, according to authorities.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Samuel Colon, 24, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder in the Nov. 8 killing of Ti\u2019Shaun Singleton, 19, at a home in the 200 block of Edward Lane, Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin Holihan said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Colon faces a minimum sentence of 6 1\u20442 years in prison, and the presiding judge will determine the maximum sentence, the DA said. Colon will be sentenced in January.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told authorities the two were playing a game called \u201cquick draw,\u201d in which they both drew weapons, according to police. As they drew, Colon shot and killed Lane, the DA said.<\/p>\n<p>A child and several others were inside the home when the shooting happened, officials said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/06\/24\/catasauqua-quick-draw-homicide-preliminary-hearing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colon fled and was at large until his arrested in April<\/a>. The gun used in the shooting was not recovered.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Allentown man admitted Thursday to killing a man during a game of \u201cquick draw\u201d almost a year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,46,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-322507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-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\/322507","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=322507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}