Final suspect pleads guilty in love-tryst shooting outside MacArthur Road store: DA

The gunman in a 2024 murder plot over a love affair involving the victim has pleaded guilty and faces decades in prison.

Christian Martinez-Ramos, 36, of Allentown, is the third and final person charged in the homicide last Dec. 7 to plead guilty, Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin Holihan and Whitehall Township police Chief Michael Marks said in a news release Monday.

Killed in the incident about 6 p.m. in the parking lot of Loco Hot Deals, 1155 MacArthur Road in Whitehall, was 46-year-old Hector Garcia Gomez, of Palmerton in Carbon County…

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