ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 An Allentown man has been sentenced to serve decades in state prison for his role in a murder last year in a city park.<\/p>\n
Carlos Landesta-Agramonte, 20, pleaded guilty in September to charges of third-degree murder and conspiracy to commit third-degree murder, both third-degree felonies. <\/p>\n
At a hearing Monday, Lehigh County Judge Thomas M. Caffrey sentenced Landesta-Agramonte to 20 to 40 years in state prison, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
Landesta-Agramonte was among five people charged in the death of 25-year-old Angel Martinez-Velez, who was shot multiple times while playing basketball June 1, 2024, at Fountain Park.<\/p>\n
Lehigh County District Attorney’s office<\/p>\n
Landesta-Agramonte was among five people charged in the death of 25-year-old Angel Martinez-Velez, who was shot multiple times while playing basketball June 1, 2024, at Fountain Park.<\/p>\n
A jury last month convicted Grelvis Estevez-Cabrera of multiple felonies, including first-degree murder, court records show. <\/p>\n
Estevez-Cabrera is due to be sentenced at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 13, 2026 before Judge Caffrey. He faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison.<\/p>\n
Alfeni Romero-Taveras, Joel Garcia-Paulino and Wilmer Esquiel Marte-Tavarez all are awaiting trial.<\/p>\n
Authorities allege two gunmen shot at Martinez-Velez before fleeing in a vehicle.<\/p>\n
City cameras recorded two vehicles \u2014 a blue Honda Accord and a white Infiniti traveling behind it \u2014 speeding away from the park and traveling together.<\/p>\n
Authorities linked Landesta-Agramonte and Estevez-Cabrera, of Bethlehem, to the Infiniti; police identified Garcia-Paulino as the man driving the Accord. <\/p>\n
Surveillance footage allegedly showed Garcia-Paulino helping his co-defendants move items from the cars.<\/p>\n
Romero-Taveras and Marte-Tavarez also were present at the shooting, according to authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 An Allentown man has been sentenced to serve decades in state prison for his role…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,27910,27911,27909,121,27912,2279,120,12163,715,2280],"class_list":["post-47730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-fountain-park-murder","tag-allentown-fountain-park-shooting","tag-allentown-guns","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-man-sentenced-for-shooting-at-fountain-park","tag-allentown-murder","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-park-shooting","tag-allentown-police","tag-allentown-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47730","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=47730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}