ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The fatal shooting of a man on an Allentown porch in February has been ruled justified, and no charges will be filed, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The person who shot Vincent Bynum, 36, after a verbal and physical altercation in the 500 block of W. Allen Street on Feb. 10 was acting in self-defense, said the Lehigh County district attorney’s office on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Investigators determined that Bynum, who died at the hospital, had alcohol and a high level of PCP in his system when he was shot around 10 a.m., the DA said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Moments before he was shot, Bynum attacked and assaulted a resident in the home, who then crawled inside for help, authorities said.<\/p>\n
A family member of that person then confronted Bynum about the attack, and Bynum tried attacking and punching that person, the DA said.<\/p>\n
The family member, who legally owned a gun, fired two shots, one of which struck Bynum, investigators determined.<\/p>\n
DA Jim Martin determined the shooting was justified and in line with state self-defense laws, and no charges will be filed. The shooter’s name will not be released, the DA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The fatal shooting of a man on an Allentown porch in February has been ruled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,805],"class_list":{"0":"post-76168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-lehighvalley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76168","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=76168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}