Around 1:15 a.m. on Monday, a handgun was fired at a gas station near Third and New Streets. According to the Bethlehem Police Department and LUPD, the subject was wearing a clown mask, a light-colored hoodie and dark pants. Authorities reported the suspect running east on Third Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This information is according to an emergency HawkWatch alert sent to the Lehigh community at 1:45 a.m. last night. The alert said updates will be made as more information is available.<\/p>\n
Bethlehem Police Department is leading the criminal investigation and LUPD officers are stationed around campus to monitor for the suspect and protect the campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The HawkWatch alert said to avoid the areas of Third and New Streets and East Third Street, remain inside, lock doors and report any suspicion immediately to LUPD at 610-758-4200 or 911.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this time, the situation may involve an unknown or ongoing threat to the health or safety of the campus community,\u201d the HawkWatch alert said. <\/p>\n
If you have information related to the incident, contact LUPD at 610-758-4200.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. The Brown and White will provide updates as they are made public.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around 1:15 a.m. on Monday, a handgun was fired at a gas station near Third and New Streets.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[333,153,155,154,334,31,7363,295],"class_list":["post-323831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-1-minute-read","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-brief","tag-crime","tag-safety","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323831","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=323831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}