{"id":10334,"date":"2025-10-21T18:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/10334\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T18:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:09:07","slug":"man-died-on-broad-street-reading-after-police-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/10334\/","title":{"rendered":"Man died on Broad Street, Reading, after police presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  A large police presence was reported outside the John Lewis shop on Broad Street late this morning (October 21).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Thames Valley Police have confirmed to the Chronicle that they were called to a &#8220;medical incident&#8221; on Broad Street just before 11am, and officers attended the scene alongside South Central Ambulance Service.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for the force said: &#8220;Sadly, a man in his eighties was pronounced dead at the scene.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The man&#8217;s family have been informed and are being supported, according to police.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The spokesperson said a file on the incident will be prepared for the coroner.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A bystander on Broad Street this morning told the Chronicle they saw four police cars, a police van, two ambulance cars, and an ambulance on the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large police presence was reported outside the John Lewis shop on Broad Street late this morning (October&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-10334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}