Allentown man gets life in prison for 2022 fatal shooting

An Allentown man convicted of a 2022 fatal shooting was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Steven Rosa, 32, was sentenced after a jury convicted him in May of first-degree murder and carrying a firearm without a license in the killing of 33-year-old Tywon Deleva Abner.

In a separate case that was tried alongside the homicide, Rosa was also convicted of witness intimidation and criminal use of a communication facility. According to the Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office, those charges stemmed from Rosa’s efforts to persuade a witness not to testify while he was incarcerated in Lehigh County Jail. Judge Robert Steinberg imposed an additional 10 to 20 years in prison for those convictions…

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