{"id":72360,"date":"2025-12-29T00:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/72360\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T00:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:41:06","slug":"i-heard-a-pop-neighbors-recount-moments-following-shooting-outside-bethlehem-mcdonalds-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/72360\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I heard a pop&#8217;: Neighbors recount moments following shooting outside Bethlehem McDonald&#8217;s | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; We are hearing from neighbors who were around when a shooting happened outside a Bethlehem McDonalds Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was inside of my house. I was playing video games, so I had my headset on and then I had my window cracked because it was hot, so I heard a pop,&#8221; said Kevin Bernal, a neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>Bernal said he looked out his window to see what was happening when he heard that noise in the area of McDonalds on Wyandotte Street.<\/p>\n<p>Bernal said he did not see anything at first, so he went back to playing video games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The next thing I see is just the blue and red lights. There was a red car right there he got stuck, I think he got shot right in the car,&#8221; said Bernal.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a man was shot outside the McDonalds.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, the suspects and the victim were all together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was surprised, yeah a little surprised that it happened in front of my house.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jarrett Berg said he heard yelling, but initially did not think much of it because it is typically a noisy intersection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But you know the shots started going off and I was about to go out with my daughter. I stayed inside for the rest of the night. I&#8217;m not about to put myself in a situation like that,&#8221; said Berg.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the shooting does not appear to be random.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, the man who was shot was taken to the hospital and had surgery.<\/p>\n<p>A car could be seen being towed away from the McDonalds parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It could&#8217;ve came through the wall, like my bedroom is in the front of my house,&#8221; said Berg.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened in an area Berg said he normally feels safe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just sad really, honestly,&#8221; said Berg.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, there is no word on the condition of the man who police said was shot or on what may have led up to this shooting.<\/p>\n<p>You can stay with 69 News as we learn more on this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; We are hearing from neighbors who were around when a shooting happened outside a Bethlehem&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-72360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72360","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=72360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}