Man sentenced to life in prison for deadly 2024 Lehigh County park shooting
Jan 13, 2026
A man will serve life in prison after a jury convicted him of a 2024 murder that happened at Lehigh County park’s basketball court, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney Office.
Grelvis Estevez Cabrera, 29, was identified as one of the suspects in the shooting death of 25-year-old A
ngel Martinez-Velez that happened at Fountain Park in Allentown on June 1, 2024.
He was found guilty by a jury of criminal homicide, murder and other related charges by a jury in October of 2025.
Estevez Cabrera as sentenced to life in prison without the possibility for parole on Jan. 13 in connection to the criminal homicide and murder charges. He was also ordered to serve an additional nine to 40 years for conspiracy to commit criminal homicide as well as probation for tampering with physical evidence.
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Deadly shooting at Fountain Park
Estevez Cabrera is among the five suspects allegedly connected to a shooting that happened at Allentown’s Fountain Park on the 900 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive around 6:30 p.m. on June 1, 2024, police had reported.
When responding officers made it to the park, they found 25-year-old Angel Martinez-Velez shot to death on the basketball court, officials said.
Witnesses who were in the area said they saw two cars: A dark-colored Honda and a white-colored car, investigators explained. The witnesses also said the man who committed the shooting was allegedly wearing a red jacket, black pants and a mask.
Cameras throughout Fountain Park captured two cars matching the descriptions shared by the witnesses leaving the park, officials said.
While reviewing the camera footage, investigators explained that they were able to see the license plate of the dark Honda and saw that a front seat passenger was wearing a red jacket.
Joel Garcia-Paulino was identified coming out of the driver’s seat of the Honda, investigators said. Cameras captured him helping the three other suspects take items out of the two cars after the shooting happened.
According to officials, investigators figured out that the other car was an Infinity registered to Carlos Nathaniel Landesta-Agramonte who would become a suspect.
Both of the cars were found at Landesta-Agramonte’s home and taken into police custody on the same day of the shooting, police said.
Through the investigation, Wilmer Esquiel Marte-Tavarez was also identified as a suspect, officials said.
Landesta-Agramonte pleaded guilty to murder and other charges on Sept. 29, 2025, and was sentenced to serve 20 to 40 years in state prison.
Garcia-Paulino was arrested on Oct. 10 and is being held at Lehigh County Jail without bail.
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