{"id":48273,"date":"2025-11-30T13:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T13:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/48273\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T13:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T13:09:12","slug":"two-men-to-face-trial-for-shooting-death-in-center-city-allentown-state-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/48273\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men to face trial for shooting death in Center City Allentown | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Two men charged in the shooting death of a Berks County man in Center City Allentown are heading to trial.<\/p>\n<p>At a preliminary hearing held yesterday, Jason Gonzalez and Garfield McLean Jr., both from Allentown, were held for court on all charges.<\/p>\n<p>Just before 6 p.m. on October 1 of this year, Allentown Police were called to the 100 block of N. 8th Street for a reported shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving officers found 24-year-old Jahlik Colon, from Temple, Berks County, dead from multiple gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p>The two suspects were arrested less than two hours after the incident and police credit the city&#8217;s surveillance and plate reader technology, as well as reports from the community, with aiding in their capture.<\/p>\n<p>Both Gonzalez and McClean are scheduled for formal arraignment January 8, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Two men charged in the shooting death of a Berks County man in Center City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,715,25092,349,3157,31,710,26910,758,457,26908,26909,13951,1856,783,7075,28,109,3636],"class_list":{"0":"post-48273","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-allentown-police","12":"tag-attacks","13":"tag-berks-county","14":"tag-center-city-allentown","15":"tag-crime","16":"tag-crimes","17":"tag-garfield-mclean-jr","18":"tag-gun-violence","19":"tag-homicide","20":"tag-jahlik-colon","21":"tag-jason-gonzalez","22":"tag-killings","23":"tag-law-enforcement","24":"tag-murder","25":"tag-murders","26":"tag-pennsylvania","27":"tag-violence","28":"tag-violent-crime"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48273","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=48273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}