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Ezequiel Dejesus, 24, of 628 N. Lumber St. in Allentown was found dead on Hilton Street in Bethlehem last Thursday, according to a press release from the Bethlehem Police Department.

Police were called to the scene after someone reported seeing a man laying in the backyard of the home.

Dejesus was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said the cause of death was a stab wound to the chest.

The event has been ruled a homicide and the investigation is ongoing.

Police said as more information becomes available it will be released.

This is the first homicide in Bethlehem in more than two years.