{"id":85617,"date":"2026-01-13T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/85617\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:00:11","slug":"catasauqua-shooting-armed-car-thieves-shot-at-by-homeowner-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/85617\/","title":{"rendered":"Catasauqua shooting: Armed car thieves shot at by homeowner, reports say"},"content":{"rendered":"

A homeowner shot at two attempted car thieves, wounding one of them, early Tuesday on a Catasauqua <\/a>street, a published report states.<\/p>\n

Borough officers responded just after 1 a.m. Tuesday to the 200 block of Second Street for the reported car burglary. <\/p>\n

According to an ABC-6 News broadcast <\/a>and Lehigh County scanner reports, police said two male suspects were attempting to steal a car. The male car owner spotted the thieves, who were wearing black masks, and fired shots from a handgun, both the broadcast and Lehigh County<\/a> scanner reports state.<\/p>\n

The resident, who was not injured, then called 911. <\/p>\n

The caller reported one of the suspects was armed with a knife and the other was carrying a bar, according to the broadcast and Lehigh County scanner reports.<\/p>\n

Both suspects fled the scene in a possible black Honda SUV, traveling toward Church Street. One had been wounded.<\/p>\n

Investigators currently are searching area hospitals for gunshot victims. Court records Tuesday morning did not show any charges filed in the case.<\/p>\n

Catasauqua Police Chief John Wiseman didn\u2019t immediately return a request for more information. Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin Holihan told lehighvalleylive.com the incident remains under investigation by his office and borough police.<\/p>\n

\"CatasauquaTwo suspects wearing black masks fled in a possible black Honda SUV after one was wounded in the confrontation on Second Street, a new broadcast states.Google maps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homeowner shot at two attempted car thieves, wounding one of them, early Tuesday on a Catasauqua street,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-85617","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\/85617","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=85617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}