{"id":85839,"date":"2026-01-13T20:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/85839\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T20:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:45:06","slug":"judge-sentences-man-to-life-in-prison-in-fatal-allentown-park-shooting-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/85839\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge sentences man to life in prison in fatal Allentown park shooting | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A judge has sentenced a man who was involved in a\u00a02024 fatal shooting at an Allentown park.<\/p>\n<p>Grelvis Estevez Cabrera, 29, of Bethlehem, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, according to\u00a0a press release from the DA\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Cabrera was convicted by a jury in October of all charges including Criminal Homicide, Murder of the First Degree; Conspiracy to Commit Criminal Homicide of the First Degree and Tampering with Physical Evidence.<\/p>\n<p>20-year-old Carlos Landesta-Agramonte of Allentown pleaded guilty in September to third-degree murder and conspiracy in the shooting. He was sentenced in November to 20- 40 years in state prison.<\/p>\n<p>Four others have also been charged in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/lehighvalley\/allentown-man-to-spend-decades-in-prison-for-2024-fatal-shooting-at-fountain-park\/article_4309c1df-6b64-4c61-a8f4-0e2b06b8cfcb.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">June 1, 2024 killing that occurred at Fountain Park<\/a> on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.<\/p>\n<p>25-year-old Angel Martinez-Velez of Allentown was shot numerous times while playing basketball at the park and his death was ruled a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Other defendants charged in the case include Alfeni Romero-Taveras, Joel Garcia Paulino and Wilmer Esquiel Marte-Tavarez, who are all awaiting trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A judge has sentenced a man who was involved in a\u00a02024 fatal shooting at an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,12305,153,26969,42933,12300,26970,17083,42932,42934,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-85839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-angel-martinez-velez","12":"tag-bethlehem","13":"tag-carlos-landesta-agramonte","14":"tag-first-degree-murder","15":"tag-fountain-park","16":"tag-grelvis-estevez-cabrera","17":"tag-jury-conviction","18":"tag-life-sentence","19":"tag-martin-luther-king-jr-drive","20":"tag-pennsylvania"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85839","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=85839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}