Nicolette Sheridan Law was a 20-year-old Black woman from Allentown, Pennsylvania, who wanted to study nursing. On the evening of Friday, February 26, 2021, she and 22-year-old Jonatan Jose Martinez were in the parking lot of the Walmart on the 2600 block of MacArthur Road in Whitehall Township when a confrontation turned into gunfire around 7 p.m. Witnesses reported seeing a man argue with one of the victims before firing multiple shots at both Nicolette and Jonatan. Police found a gun in a nearby snowbank after the shooting.

Both victims were taken to a local hospital; Nicolette was pronounced dead from gunshot wounds and her death was ruled a homicide. Jonatan Jose Martinez was critically injured and later died on March 7, 2021. Police arrested 23-year-old Edward Joel Rosario-Jimenez of Whitehall and charged him with criminal homicide in Nicolette’s death, along with attempted criminal homicide, aggravated assault, and carrying a firearm without a license. The case was in the legal system as of March 2021.

Anyone who witnessed the shooting in the Walmart parking lot or who has information about the events that night is asked to come forward.