Orlando Ibanez, a 58-year-old Hispanic man, was fatally shot inside his Allentown apartment in the early morning hours of September 23, 2023. Police responded to a 911 call around 1:45 a.m. and found him at the entrance of his home in the 500 block of West Allen Street; he was shot in the neck and pronounced dead at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest at 2:20 a.m. The Lehigh County Coroner’s Office ruled the death a homicide.

Investigators with the Allentown Police Department and the Lehigh County Homicide Task Force reviewed nearby surveillance and identified a man entering the building shortly before the shooting and running away several minutes later. That man was tracked on video back to a residence on North Nagle Street and identified as Evander Terrel Thompson. Cellphone records showed a text from Thompson minutes after the shooting that read he dead. The firearm used in the killing was recovered in the possession of Thompson’s son and ballistics linked shell casings at the scene to that gun; police also recovered a video Thompson had recorded of himself holding the weapon.

Does anyone have information about Orlando’s life in the neighborhood or saw activity around West Allen Street on the night of September 23, 2023?