{"id":159710,"date":"2026-04-07T19:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159710\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:04:11","slug":"1-dead-suspect-in-custody-after-shooting-in-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159710\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, suspect in custody after shooting in Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERKS COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 One person was pronounced dead Monday evening in Reading after a shooting, city police announced. <\/p>\n<p>Officers were dispatched around 6:57 p.m. for reports of a shooting in the 1000 block of Muhlenberg Street.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, officers located a male with a gunshot wound to his upper torso. He was transported to Reading Hospital but was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>A suspect was located on scene and taken into custody, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Police said this is an isolated incident and there is no threat to the community. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call Reading Police Department at 610-655-6116.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 One person was pronounced dead Monday evening in Reading after a shooting, city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-159710","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\/159710","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=159710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}