{"id":94816,"date":"2026-01-23T18:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/94816\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:01:07","slug":"19-year-old-killed-in-allentown-alley-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/94816\/","title":{"rendered":"19-year-old killed in Allentown alley shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZWZMPDJZIRBM7MT2M4YQNRAVTM\">A 19-year-old was killed Thursday evening in shooting in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Allentown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Allentown\">Allentown<\/a> alley, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TG54PU22TVGPJGUUAOFYPAVIIM\">Shots were fired just after 9 p.m. in the 500 block of Carrot Street, an alley behind Washington Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VK6GNSRDIVAG5MXAZPXSE2VWVM\">The man was taken to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Lehigh%20Valley%20Hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Lehigh%20Valley%20Hospital\">Lehigh Valley Hospital<\/a>-Muhlenberg in Bethlehem, where he was pronounced dead just before 10 p.m. Thursday, the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"B4YIH266VFADDFIR4OOAXNCODQ\">An autopsy is scheduled for later Friday. The manner of death was ruled a homicide by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Lehigh%20County%20Coroner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Lehigh%20County%20Coroner\/\">Lehigh County Coroner<\/a> Daniel A. Buglio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"Y5YHCKQLDZAMNKKBCKWYZ7MFMI\">The coroner\u2019s office has identified the deceased but is not releasing the man\u2019s name until the family has time to grieve, Buglio said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HSFUWCWASREWJDDG2R7YV3IQDM\">Pamela Lehman, spokeswoman for the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office, told lehighvalleylive.com Friday morning no suspects were in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"T6BRIDKIUFBSPBVCJALS6TTUCM\">Authorities have not said what led up to the shooting or if anyone else was injured in the gunfire. Allentown Police Captain Michael Becker, Jr. couldn\u2019t immediately be reached for more details Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TMPJ67TSPBAU5D4C7KU2ES5W7E\">Thursday\u2019s incident remains under investigation by the Allentown Police Department; Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office; Lehigh County Homicide Task Force; and the Lehigh County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old was killed Thursday evening in shooting in an Allentown alley, authorities said. Shots were fired just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6269,119,121,120,591],"class_list":{"0":"post-94816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-ala2014032416204504","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-merlinmigration2014"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94816","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=94816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}