{"id":85496,"date":"2026-01-13T12:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/85496\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T12:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:51:10","slug":"homeowner-shoots-at-attempted-car-thieves-in-catasauqua-lehigh-county-wounding-1-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/85496\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeowner shoots at attempted car thieves in Catasauqua, Lehigh County, wounding 1 suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CATASAUQUA, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; Police in Lehigh County say a homeowner shot at two attempted car thieves, wounding one of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It happened at 1 a.m. on Tuesday along the 200 block of 2nd Street in Catasauqua.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators say the homeowner fired shots at the two men as they were attempting to steal a vehicle, striking one of the suspects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The men were reportedly wearing black masks. Police say one suspect had a knife, and the other was carrying a bar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Both suspects, including the wounded one, ran away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police are searching local hospitals for gunshot victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The homeowner was not injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">No charges have been filed.  The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CATASAUQUA, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; Police in Lehigh County say a homeowner shot at two attempted car thieves, wounding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[42775,119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-85496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-42775","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85496","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=85496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}