READING, Pa.\u00a0\u2013 Police were on the scene of a reported deadly stabbing in Reading Wednesday.<\/p>\n
As of Wednesday night, the investigation was in its early stages, but it was reported that there was a fatal stabbing in the 1200 block of Amity Street.<\/p>\n
The Berks County coroner did confirm that they were called to the scene and that at least one person was dead.<\/p>\n
Caution tape was set up, and multiple Reading police vehicles were there with flashing lights.<\/p>\n
Amity Street and Birch Street were blocked off Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Officials say told police responded around 9 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Neighbors who live along the block said it is typically a quiet area and not much happens around there. There’s also a playground just down the street from where the incident happened.<\/p>\n
People who live in the area expressed concern Wednesday night and said they did see somebody being transported out of a home in the 1200 block of Amity Street.<\/p>\n
Check back for updates on this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa.\u00a0\u2013 Police were on the scene of a reported deadly stabbing in Reading Wednesday. As of Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-136103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136103","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=136103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}