{"id":189577,"date":"2026-05-11T22:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189577\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T22:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:15:09","slug":"one-in-custody-two-injured-after-shooting-outside-reading-bar-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189577\/","title":{"rendered":"One in custody, two injured after shooting outside Reading bar | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"

READING, Pa. – Police in Reading are investigating an early morning shooting that sent two people to the hospital.<\/p>\n

Police were dispatched to the area of S. 7th and Laurel streets around 2 a.m. Sunday for a report of a fight with shots fired near the El Tubo Bar & Grill.<\/p>\n

Arriving officers located three men inside of a sedan at the location with one, later identified as 46-year-old Julio Echevarria, allegedly attempting to hide a gun inside the car’s passenger side compartment.<\/p>\n

Police on scene located a male victim shot twice in the arm approximately 30 feet from the car.<\/p>\n

Around the same time, police say a female showed up at Reading Hospital with a gunshot wound to the stomach.<\/p>\n

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The area of S. 7th and Laurel streets, where shots rang out Sunday near the El Tubo Bar & Grill.<\/p>\n

Chad Blimline | WFMZ-TV <\/p>\n

Investigators reviewing surveillance video from outside El Tubo observed a large fight involving almost 20 individuals just prior to the shooting. Police say Echevarria was one of the main aggressors in the fight.<\/p>\n

At some point during the fight, the suspect allegedly pulled a pistol from his waistband and fired multiple shots, striking the victims.<\/p>\n

Online court records list Echevarria as in the custody of Berks County Jail after being denied bail.<\/p>\n

He’s charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and related offenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – Police in Reading are investigating an early morning shooting that sent two people to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,8335,84308,84307,28,736,36006,128,130,129,2791],"class_list":["post-189577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-berks-county-jail","tag-el-tubo-bar","tag-julio-echevarria","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-bar","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189577","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=189577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}