On the afternoon of New Year’s Eve 2021 a 25-year-old man was shot and killed in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Jermel Johnson of nearby Northampton was struck around 1 p.m. at the intersection of 9th and Gordon Streets. He was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest and pronounced dead the same day; the Lehigh County Coroner’s Office later ruled his death a homicide.

Investigators from the Allentown Police Department, the Lehigh County Homicide Task Force, and the District Attorney’s Office identified a 25-year-old Allentown man, Joseph Warren Suydam, as a suspect. Authorities alleged the shooting arose during a transaction involving marijuana. On January 9, 2022, U.S. Marshals located and arrested Suydam in Virginia; he was also wanted on a Lehigh County parole violation and a felony counterfeit currency charge. He was being held for extradition to Pennsylvania on homicide and illegal possession of a firearm charges.

Did anyone in the area around 9th and Gordon Streets that day see or hear anything that could help clarify what happened?