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As people picnicked in the Allentown park, Kenith Otero-Ruiz, 24, fired 12 shots at Jose Melendez, hitting him nine times, during a dispute that began with a fender-bender.
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An Allentown pleaded guilty Monday to third-degree murder for shooting an acquaintance over a fender bender July 4, 2020.
An Allentown man who terrorized a couple in their Center City apartment for hours, binding them with wires before raping the woman and forcing her to withdraw cash from an ATM, was sentenced Friday to a minimum of nearly 27 years in prison for a February 2020 crime spree.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. |Â The man who admitted to stabbing his wife outside a Lehigh County shopping center earlier this year tearfully asked a judge to show him mercy, told his wife that he still loved her and even asked whether the charges against him could be dropped. But if Jonathan Rompilla truly cared for his wife as much as he claims, he wouldnât have stabbed her twice and left her die in a cold, snowy parking lot, Assistant District Attorney Edward Muir said. âItâs ridiculous now to say that heâs glad sheâs alive,â Muir told the court.