CATASAUQUA, Pa. – The Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office said a resident shot a suspected\u00a0car thief overnight in\u00a0Catasauqua, Lehigh County.<\/p>\n
The resident shot at the suspected car thief multiple times, according to a news release from the DA’s office.<\/p>\n
The DA’s office said the person was hit at least once.<\/p>\n
“The only description we have is wearing all black with masks on,” said emergency dispatchers during scanner reports.<\/p>\n
Investigators said the person who was shot fled the area. The shooter reportedly fired a number of rounds at the suspected car thief.<\/p>\n
“I just want to confirm with you he was struck by a handgun, so I’m assuming he’s going to probably want to go to the hospital at some point,” said emergency dispatchers.<\/p>\n
Initial emergency scanner reports indicate the person who was shot was accompanied by another person.<\/p>\n
“The two males were armed. One of the males did have a knife and the other had a bar of some sort,” said emergency dispatchers.<\/p>\n
According to the District Attorney’s Office, the person who was shot ended up being taken to the hospital by car.<\/p>\n
Authorities said the suspect remains hospitalized, but his injuries do not appear to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n
The investigation is ongoing and at this point no arrests have been made, the\u00a0DA’s office said.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information may call Catasauqua Borough Police Detective Christopher Wittik at 610-264- 0577.<\/p>\n
Catasauqua Borough Police are investigating, with assistance by the Pennsylvania State Police Forensics Services Unit as well as the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CATASAUQUA, Pa. – The Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office said a resident shot a suspected\u00a0car thief overnight in\u00a0Catasauqua,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,8469,43063,716,28,43064],"class_list":{"0":"post-86079","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","11":"tag-catasauqua","12":"tag-catasauqua-borough-police","13":"tag-lehigh-county-district-attorneys-office","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-pennsylvania-state-police-forensics-services-unit"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86079","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=86079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}