On the evening of May 28, 2026, 74-year-old Fernando Guerrero Taveras was fatally shot on the front porch of a home in the 5100 block of 3rd Street in the Cementon area of Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania. Emergency responders found him with multiple gunshot wounds to his torso, leg, and chin; the Lehigh County Coroner ruled the death a homicide from those gunshot injuries.

Investigators say surveillance video from the scene captured a person identified as 17-year-old Elijah Ceballos on the porch pointing a gun at Guerrero Taveras, then walking away. Authorities recovered 16 spent 9mm shell casings at the scene. Ceballos’s father contacted detectives, consented to a search of the family home on Main Street, and officers found clothing matching the footage plus a Sar Arms 9mm pistol with an empty 17-round magazine.

Elijah Ceballos was taken into custody and charged as an adult with criminal homicide, carrying a firearm without a license, possession of a firearm by a minor, and possession of a weapon. He was arraigned May 29, 2026; a judge denied bail and ordered him held at the Lehigh County Jail. Authorities say they believe the attack was targeted, but no motive has been released. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to come forward.