Aces High Auto Detailing

An Allentown police car sits this morning in the 600 block of Nelson Street after an "apparent homicide" at a nearby business.

(Express-Times Photo | SARAH CASSI)

UPDATE:

A man was shot and died early this morning in a business in the 600 block of Nelson Street in

,

report.

No one is in custody but police put out an alert for a silver BMW, police Capt. Tony Alsleben said. It didn't appear to be a robbery, he said, although he couldn't confirm that because it is still under investigation.

Next of kin has not been notified and the

has yet to rule on a cause and manner of death, Alsleben said, but it's an "apparent homicide."

When asked if it were a homicide, Coroner Scott Grim said the incident remains under investigation. The man was declared dead at the scene, Grim said by email.

The general public is not at risk, Alsleben said. County District Attorney

and a coroner were at the scene after the 2 a.m. call, Alsleben said.

The investigation is continuing and more information may be released later, he said.

An alert said police are looking for a 2003 silver BMW with tinted windows and a license number of J50033J, according to emergency radio reports. The occupant is to be considered armed and dangerous, the dispatch said. The car was registered to someone on Fourth Street in Allentown, the dispatch said.

The block was quiet just before 9:30 this morning, with a single police car parked in front of Aces High Auto Detailing the only indication that a crime could have occurred. No one was at the business and a voicemail wasn't immediately returned.

Police did not identify the business where the shooting occurred.

The block intersects Hanover Avenue. There is a drug store at the corner which faces on Hanover.

There are other auto businesses on Nelson, with an open field also on the block. A worker at one of those businesses declined comment.

Ritter Elementary School is within two blocks and there was a police vehicle out front just after 9:30.

School personnel are aware of the shooting and have put normal emergency procedures in place, Allentown School District Director of Communications Kim Golden-Benner said.

"The children are all safe," she said, declining to outline the procedures but adding the school is not on lockdown.

"No one is able to get in," she said, adding that there is security in place every day.

The Lincoln Leadership Academy charter school is also in the neighborhood, but a person who answered the intercom there said they didn't know about the fatality.