READING, Pa. – A Reading man is in custody, charged with firing a gun into a home where police say children were inside at the time.<\/p>\n
24-year-old Julius Franceschi is charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and related offenses.<\/p>\n
Reading Police responded to the 200 block of Maple Street just before 11 p.m. Saturday for a report of shots fired.<\/p>\n
Witnesses told police that the incident started when a woman, known to residents of the home and presumed to be under the influence of alcohol, showed up at the house and had to be removed after becoming verbally abusive and physically violent.<\/p>\n
The woman allegedly showed up again later, saying, “I got something for you,” which the victim took to mean someone would return to the house to start issues.<\/p>\n
Later on, Franceschi allegedly showed up on a moped and fired several shots at the home. Investigators say the victim returned fire from a second-floor bedroom window, shooting once at the suspect.<\/p>\n
Police say children were home at the time, but no one was injured.<\/p>\n
Investigators located four spent shell casings in the block and say bullets traveled through the front door and a front window.<\/p>\n
Police located Franceschi in the 300 block of Penn Street and he was taken into custody.<\/p>\n
He was committed to Berks County Jail on $60,000 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – A Reading man is in custody, charged with firing a gun into a home where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,31,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-167863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-crime","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\/167863","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=167863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}