Convicted Killer Gets Prison Time For 2021 Allentown Slaying

The gunman convicted of killing 43-year-old Jose Bermudez will spend the next several decades in prison, a Lehigh County judge has ruled.

Mac Bullock

09/29/2023 3:48 p.m.

Raymond B. Gourgue, 36, was sentenced to 20 to 40 years on Wednesday, Sept. 27.

Gourgue was convicted on murder charges in July. Police said he shot and killed Bermudez on the 100 block of North Hall Street on May 14, 2021.

Bermudez was pronounced dead later that night at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, the Lehigh County coroner has said.

Gourgue was arrested over a year later in October 2022.

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