{"id":159045,"date":"2026-04-07T02:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159045\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:15:27","slug":"city-officials-one-dead-one-in-custody-after-shooting-in-reading-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159045\/","title":{"rendered":"City officials: One dead, one in custody after shooting in Reading | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

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READING, Pa. – Officials confirm a homicide occurred Monday night on the 100 block of Muhlenberg Street in Reading.<\/p>\n

At approximately 6:57 p.m., patrol officers responded to the 1000 block of Muhlenberg St. for what was reported as a shooting, according to a press release from the city.<\/p>\n

Upon arrival, officers located a man with a gunshot wound to his upper torso. Police say he was transported to Reading Hospital for life-saving measures but succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n

Shortly after arriving on scene, officers say they located a suspect and took him into custody.<\/p>\n

City officials say this is an isolated incident and there is no threat to the community.<\/p>\n

The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information related to this incident is asked to call Reading Police Department at 610 -655-6116 or contact Crime Alert Berks at 877-373-9913.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WFMZ-TV READING, Pa. – Officials confirm a homicide occurred Monday night on the 100 block of Muhlenberg Street…\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-159045","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\/159045","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=159045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159045\/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=159045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}