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Convicted Killer Gets Prison Time For 2021 Allentown Slaying Convicted Killer Gets Prison Time For 2021 Allentown Slaying
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.  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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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
DOUBLE MURDER: Fugitive Wanted In MontCo Teens' Killings Surrenders, Police Say DOUBLE MURDER: Fugitive Wanted In MontCo Teens' Killings Surrenders, Police Say
Double Murder: Fugitive Wanted In MontCo Teens' Killings Surrenders, Police Say The fugitive wanted in the killings to two Montgomery County teens has surrendered himself to authorities, officials announced.  Deonte Kelly, 23, of Philadelphia, surrendered to police in Pottstown at around 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 25, said Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele in a statement. Investigators believe Kelly acted with 17-year-old Dominic Carboni in the Monday, Oct. 17 shootings of Skyler Fox, 17, and Brandon Bacote-Byer, 18, in Pottstown.  DA Steele has described the murders as a drug deal gone wrong.  After Carboni's arrest last week, author…

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
Third Man Dies In Reading Shooting Spree: Report Third Man Dies In Reading Shooting Spree: Report
Third Man Dies In Reading Shooting Spree: Report A third man has died after a 24-hour shooting spree in Reading, WFMZ reports. Samuel Castillo, 36, died Monday, Aug. 1 at Reading Hospital after being found shot inside a vehicle on Locust Street and Greenwich Street around 12:35 a.m., the outlet says citing the county coroner's office. Two other men were also killed in separate shootings in the city within 24 hours of each other, authorities said. ALSO SEE: Three Shootings, Two Murders Within 24 Hours In Reading: PD No arrests have been made in any of the incidents as of Tuesday, Aug. 2. Click here for more from WFMZ.

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by Nicole Acosta
News
'I Think She's Dead': Son Charged With Killing Mom, 79, With Fire Iron Called 911 'I Think She's Dead': Son Charged With Killing Mom, 79, With Fire Iron Called 911
'I Think She's Dead': Son Charged With Killing Mom, 79, With Fire Iron Called 911 UPDATE: A man charged with brutally bludgeoning his 79-year-old mother with a fireplace poker called 911 to report the crime, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Responding police officers found Patrick Maupai, 40, on the lawn of the New Milford Avenue home that he shared with his mother, Linda Maupai, across the street from Dumont High School. He was still on the phone talking with the dispatcher shortly before midnight Sunday, the prosecutor said. Maupai had admitted hitting his mother with the fire iron, Musella said. He also told the dispatcher that he believed she was dea…

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by Jerry DeMarco