ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Two men are charged with homicide after a Berks County man was shot and killed Wednesday night in Allentown.<\/p>\n
Jason Luis Gonzalez, 25, of Allentown, and Garfield St. Bernard McLean Jr., 30, of Reading, were arrested and charged shortly after Jahlik R. Colon died at a local hospital from multiple gunshot wounds about 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, according to officials.<\/p>\n
Police allege Gonzalez shot Colon, 24, of Temple, a half-hour earlier in the 100 block of North Eighth Street. <\/p>\n
McLean is accused of acting as a getaway driver for Gonzalez.<\/p>\n
Detectives used city surveillance cameras to identify Gonzalez and McLean as suspects, Police Capt. Daniel Gross said in a news release.<\/p>\n
Officers about 7:15 p.m. stopped the vehicle the two were in and arrested both; a handgun was found during searches, according to the release.<\/p>\n
Gonzalez and McLean each faces charges of criminal homicide and conspiracy to commit homicide.<\/p>\n
Gonzalez also was charged with reckless endangerment and prohibited possession of a firearm, according to police.<\/p>\n
Both were in Lehigh County Jail on Thursday, held without the option of bail.<\/p>\n
Preliminary hearings for Gonzalez and McLean are scheduled for Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Allentown Mayor Matt Tuerk and Police Chief Charles Roca are scheduled to provide a public safety update on crime data and quality-of-life issues in a news conference scheduled for 1 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n
The event was scheduled prior to Wednesday\u2019s shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Two men are charged with homicide after a Berks County man was shot and killed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,5736,121,2277,120,5737,5738,5739,5740,5741],"class_list":["post-6343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-fatal-shooting","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-homicide","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-shooting-wednesday","tag-jahlik-colon-death","tag-jahlik-r-colon","tag-man-shot-to-death-in-allentown","tag-north-8th-st-shooting-allentown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343","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=6343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}