ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A person is dead, and two others are hurt, after a shooting at a bar in\u00a0Allentown early Friday morning.<\/p>\n
Officers responded to the center at the 1300 block of Hanover Avenue for a reported shooting around 1:30 a.m., according to a news release from the Allentown Police Department. A photo from the scene showed police tape set up outside Big Woody’s Sports Bar & Restaurant.<\/p>\n
Officers found two victims with gunshot wounds, city police said.<\/p>\n
Allentown police said initial information revealed that a fight precipitated the shooting.<\/p>\n
Officers gave first aid to the victims, who were then taken to an area hospital for treatment. One victim later died,\u00a0according to the news release.<\/p>\n
The Lehigh County Coroner’s Office said in a news release the victim was a 34-year-old Allentown man. The man has been positively identified, and the family and next of kin have been notified; his identity is being withheld at this time to allow the family to grieve privately, the coroner’s office said.<\/p>\n
The man’s identity is anticipated to be released Friday afternoon, the coroner’s office said in its news release.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0coroner’s office said it ruled the manner of death as a homicide.<\/p>\n
City police said the other victim is expected to survive his injuries, according to the news release. A short while later, an additional victim from the shooting arrived at a nearby hospital and is being treated, city police said.<\/p>\n
He is expected to survive.<\/p>\n
Police said the investigation is active and ongoing, and there is no danger to the community at this time.<\/p>\n
The Allentown Police, Lehigh County DA\u2019s Office, Lehigh County Homicide Task Force, and the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office are investigating.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to call the Allentown Police Department Criminal Investigations Division at 610-437-7721 or the Allentown Police Department Complaint Desk at 610-437-7753.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Anonymous text tips may be sent through the Tip411 available on the Allentown Police Department Facebook page<\/a> or the Allentown Police Department website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A person is dead, and two others are hurt, after a shooting at a bar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,25092,153,155,154,31,710,111,758,457,13951,1856,433,28913,12331,2897,783,7075,28,206,109,3636],"class_list":{"0":"post-65360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-attacks","10":"tag-bethlehem","11":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","12":"tag-bethlehem-news","13":"tag-crime","14":"tag-crimes","15":"tag-death","16":"tag-gun-violence","17":"tag-homicide","18":"tag-killings","19":"tag-law-enforcement","20":"tag-lehigh-county","21":"tag-mass-murders","22":"tag-mass-shootings","23":"tag-misconduct","24":"tag-murder","25":"tag-murders","26":"tag-pennsylvania","27":"tag-police","28":"tag-violence","29":"tag-violent-crime"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65360","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=65360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}