A fourth suspect is in custody in connection with a shooting that left a 25-year-old man dead last year on an Allentown basketball court.<\/p>\n
Angel Martinez-Velez, of Allentown, died of multiple gunshot wounds in the gunfire reported around 6:30 p.m. June 1, 2024, on the court at Fountain Park, 924 Martin Luther King Drive.<\/p>\n
Joel Arturo Garcia-Paulino, 22, of Northampton, was seen on city surveillance cameras helping other suspects in the homicide remove items from cars shortly after the shooting, Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin Holihan said in a news release Friday.<\/p>\n
Garcia-Paulino also is accused of having been present in an Allentown apartment where plans for the shooting were discussed.<\/p>\n
The DA\u2019s office obtained convictions against two more men<\/a> identified as being present in the Allentown apartment and for their involvement in the killing:<\/p>\n Carlos Nathaniel Landesta-Agramonte, now 20, of Allentown, pleaded guilty last month to third-degree murder and conspiracy; a jury earlier this month convicted Grelvis Estevez Cabrera, now 29, of Bethlehem, of all charges, including homicide and conspiracy.<\/p>\n Estevez Cabrera faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole, Holihan\u2019s office said. Both Landesta-Agramonte and Estevez Cabrera are scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 25 before Judge Thomas Caffrey in the Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas.<\/p>\n Holihan and Allentown police in July arrested the additional suspect, 23-year-old Wilmer Esquiel Marte-Tavarez<\/a>, of Lords Valley, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n Garcia-Paulino and Marte-Tavarez are both charged with homicide, conspiracy and tampering with evidence.<\/p>\n Garcia-Paulino was arraigned Friday before District Judge Karen Devine. He and Marte-Tavarez are denied bail.<\/p>\n Investigators said Marte-Tavarez was identified on video surveillance footage taken shortly after the shooting as matching the description of the shooter. He is scheduled for formal arraignment Nov. 6 in Lehigh County Court. <\/p>\n Holihan said investigators also relied on license plate readers, social media sources, and input from witnesses and participation from the community in making the arrests. <\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fourth suspect is in custody in connection with a shooting that left a 25-year-old man dead last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-3326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326","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=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}