District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan announced Jan. 13 a man was sentenced to life in prison without parole for his conviction in a 2024 killing in an Allentown park.

Grelvis Estevez Cabrera, 29, of Bethlehem, was convicted by a jury in October 2025 of all charges including the mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for criminal homicide, murder of the first degree and an additional 9 to 40 years for the conspiracy to commit criminal homicide of the first degree charge. He was also sentenced to serve probation for the remaining count.

Around 6:30 p.m. June 1, 2024 at Fountain Park on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Allentown Police were called to a shooting on the basketball court of the park. Officers found the victim, 25-year-old Angel Martinez-Velez, with several gunshot wounds.

Martinez-Velez of Allentown died from multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide by the Lehigh County Coroner.

Witnesses described two gunmen, both wearing distinctive clothing and masks who fled in a dark-colored Honda Accord.

Authorities determined a second car was also in the area of Fountain Park at the time of the murder.

Immediately after the shooting and 911 calls, Allentown city cameras recorded those two vehicles fleeing the park and appearing to travel together. Police tracked the vehicles through the city on the camera system traveling together at a high rate of speed.

By reviewing those cameras, investigators were able to identify the license plate of the Honda and saw a front seat passenger wearing the same clothing described by the witnesses as one of the gunmen. The second car, following close behind, was registered to Carlos Landesta-Agramonte, who lived at a home on East Court Street in Allentown.

Less than two hours after the killing, both cars were observed near the East Court Street home and those vehicles were seized pursuant to a search warrant. Inside a vehicle, police found clothing and masks that matched the descriptions given by witnesses to the shooting.

A total of five defendants has been charged, including Alfeni Romero-Taveras, Joel Garcia Paulino and Wilmer Esquiel Marte-Tavarez, who are all awaiting trial.

Carlos Landesta-Agramonte was also charged and pleaded guilty in November to Murder of the Third Degree and Conspiracy to Commit Murder of the Third Degree. He was sentenced to serve 20 to 40 years in state prison.