{"id":325672,"date":"2026-11-11T18:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T18:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/325672\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T18:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T18:54:09","slug":"allentown-man-shot-vehicle-on-route-22-in-whitehall-township-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/325672\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown man shot vehicle on Route 22 in Whitehall Township, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Allentown man is accused of shooting another vehicle on Route 22 Tuesday morning in Lehigh County, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Omar Colon, 47, fired a gun from a pickup truck he was driving, hitting another vehicle about 6:30 a.m. in the westbound lane near Fullerton Avenue in Whitehall Township, state police said in a news release. Colon fled the scene after the shooting, the release states.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Colon is charged with felonies of aggravated assault, receiving stolen property, carrying a firearm without a license and possessing a firearm with an altered manufacturer number, as well as a misdemeanor of recklessly endangering another person.<\/p>\n<p>He was sent to Lehigh County Jail on $100,000 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Allentown man is accused of shooting another vehicle on Route 22 Tuesday morning in Lehigh County, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,2376,202,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-325672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325672","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=325672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}