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Here’s a breakdown of how The Morning Call newsroom came together to cover the shooting at the Upper Macungie Wawa.
Pa. Wawa shooter legally purchased gun months before fatal attack, DA says Updated 7:57 AM; Facebook Share District Attorney James Martin said Za Uk Lian, 45, of South Whitehall Township, purchased the Smith & Wesson M&P Shield .40 caliber semi-automatic pistol from an area business on Jan. 30. Martin did not name the business. Lian applied for a concealed weapon permit on Feb. 5 and received approval for it on March 12, Martin said. Lian used the gun to shoot and kill Ramon Ramirez, 31, while he was pumping gas early Wednesday morning at the Wawa at Route 100 and Schantz Road in Upper Macun...
A man opened fire at a convenience store in Lehigh County on Wednesday morning, killing one person and injuring another before taking his own life, officials said.District Attorney James Martin said the gunman had first shot at a car on a highway several miles away. The woman in the car wasn't hurt and told authorities she didn't realize her vehicle had been hit until she stopped at a Wawa in Upper Macungie Township, outside Allentown.Martin said the shooter had driven to the same store, where he shot and wounded a man in a Jeep in the parking lot.The gunman then fatally shot a truck dri...
Column: America's gun violence problem has become so bad that a shooting with two victims, and nearly a third, doesn't even count as being unusual.
Apr 22, 2021 An early Wednesday morning incident on Route 22 ended up seeing two people dead and a third person wounded. Lehigh County DA Jim Martin says a woman was driving on 22 between 309 and Cedar Crest Boulevard when she had an encounter with the driver of a white Toyota Corolla. The DA says the driver of that Corolla was 45-year-old Za Uk Lian of South Whitehall Township, who shot and hit the second car. That driver didn't know she was shot at and drove to a Wawa on Schantz Road along Route 100. Martin says the Lian followed and then shot and wounded a man in the parking lot. Afte...