READING, Pa. – A man has been charged in connection with a Reading triple shooting outside a neighborhood bar.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During the early morning hours of May 17, Reading Police responded to the area of S. 17th & Cotton Streets for a reported shooting with multiple victims.<\/p>\n
Arriving officers discovered three men shot at the location. All were transported to Reading Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n
According to court documents, a fight occurred inside a bar located in the block.<\/p>\n
During the altercation, a man was punched in the face and knocked to the floor. Police say he left the bar a short time later.<\/p>\n
Approximately 30 minutes after that, police say the man who was punched could be seen standing on the corner of 17th & Cotton with a group of people.<\/p>\n
As patrons exited the bar, the man who was punched charged at them and a large fight broke out between several of the men gathered.<\/p>\n
At this time, the side door of a Dodge Durango parked in the crosswalk opened and a man, later identified as 21-year-old Michael Raifsnider, got out of the vehicle. Police allege he then removed a firearm from his waistband and began firing.<\/p>\n
Police say the man punched inside the bar was struck by gunfire in the shoulder and buttocks and another man was shot in the eye.<\/p>\n
Three unknown suspects fired back at Raifsnider. Investigators say he was hit in the nose and collapsed behind a nearby pickup truck.<\/p>\n
Raifsnider is charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault and related offenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – A man has been charged in connection with a Reading triple shooting outside a neighborhood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[88608,28,736,128,130,129,2791,18521],"class_list":["post-200068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-michael-raifsnider","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-hospital","tag-triple-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200068","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=200068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}