{"id":45523,"date":"2025-11-26T19:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/45523\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T19:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:39:06","slug":"allentown-man-to-spend-decades-in-prison-for-2024-fatal-shooting-at-fountain-park-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/45523\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown man to spend decades in prison for 2024 fatal shooting at Fountain Park | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; One of five people charged in a 2024 fatal shooting at an Allentown park has learned his sentence.<\/p>\n<p>20-year-old Carlos Landesta-Agramonte of Allentown pleaded guilty in September to third-degree murder and conspiracy. On Monday, he was sentenced to 20-<\/p>\n<p>40 years in state prison.<\/p>\n<p>Four others have also been charged in the June 1, 2024 killing that occurred at Fountain Park on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.<\/p>\n<p>25-year-old Angel Martinez-Velez of Allentown was shot numerous times while playing basketball at the park and his death was ruled a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Other defendants charged in this case include Alfeni Romero-Taveras, Joel Garcia Paulino and Wilmer Esquiel Marte-Tavarez, who are all awaiting trial.<\/p>\n<p>Grelvis Estevez Cabrera was convicted by a jury last month of all charges and faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison at his sentencing scheduled for January 13.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/lehighvalley\/record-breaking-travel-expected-during-thanksgiving-holiday\/article_06cdb7a9-0994-48eb-90d6-58aaeefc6a91.html#tncms-source=Homepage-Top-Stories\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; One of five people charged in a 2024 fatal shooting at an Allentown park has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,12305,26969,31,710,2892,2894,26970,26968,13951,2897,783,28,12301],"class_list":{"0":"post-45523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-angel-martinez-velez","12":"tag-carlos-landesta-agramonte","13":"tag-crime","14":"tag-crimes","15":"tag-criminal-justice","16":"tag-criminal-law","17":"tag-grelvis-estevez-cabrera","18":"tag-joel-garcia-paulino","19":"tag-killings","20":"tag-misconduct","21":"tag-murder","22":"tag-pennsylvania","23":"tag-wilmer-esquiel-marte-tavarez"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45523","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=45523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}