Gunfire on Hamilton Street in Allentown, After Attack With Metal Baseball Bat, Leads to One Death

July 6, 2025

— Jeff Ward, Lehigh Valley News Briefs

The Fourth of July holiday weekend has been bloody across the U.S. including Allentown.

Gunfire broke out around 3:37 a.m., according to Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan and Allentown Police Chief Charles Roca.

An unidentified person is dead. One person hit another’s vehicle with a metal bat, and one of the people in that vehicle shot the person with the bat.

Here’s the statement from Holihan and Roca: