{"id":159013,"date":"2026-04-07T01:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159013\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T01:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:26:07","slug":"city-officials-one-in-custody-after-homicide-in-reading-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159013\/","title":{"rendered":"City officials: One in custody after homicide in Reading | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"City officials: One in custody after homicide in Reading\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69d45538a0811.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Officials confirm a homicide occurred Monday night on the 100 block of Muhlenberg Street in Reading.<\/p>\n<p>Reading police tells 69 News that one person is in custody.<\/p>\n<p>No additional details have been released as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Stay with 69 News for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WFMZ-TV READING, Pa. &#8211; Officials confirm a homicide occurred Monday night on the 100 block of Muhlenberg Street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1646,1305,31,457,1856,72005,72006,736,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-159013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-city-of-reading","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-homicide","12":"tag-law-enforcement","13":"tag-muhlenberg-st","14":"tag-noel-acosta","15":"tag-reading","16":"tag-reading-city","17":"tag-reading-city-headlines","18":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159013","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=159013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}