Allentown fight over car bumper ends in fatal shooting; brother charged with homicide

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Three brothers are in jail, one of them charged with criminal homicide, after a dispute over a car bumper ended with a 29-year-old man shot to death Monday evening on North Ninth Street, prosecutors say.

Jose Rivera was shot shortly after 5 p.m. in the middle of the street near Tilghman Street and later died, Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin Holihan and Allentown Police Chief Charles Roca said Wednesday.

It started when a woman driving south on North Ninth Street saw a front bumper on a black Acura parked on the block, according to the district attorney’s office. She told police it was hers, stolen two days earlier, and that she knew it by its markings. She called Julian Nathaniel Espada, 28, on FaceTime to say she had found it…

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