{"id":215029,"date":"2026-06-09T22:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215029\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T22:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:54:10","slug":"police-10-year-old-hurt-3-arrested-after-allegedly-sparking-gunfire-in-custody-dispute-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215029\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: 10\u2011year\u2011old hurt, 3 arrested after allegedly sparking gunfire in custody dispute | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; A custody fight in Reading turned violent Monday night when a gunshot allegedly grazed a 10\u2011year\u2011old boy, police said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Reading Police, officers were called around 7:22 p.m. to the 200 block of Fishers Court for a fight in progress over custody of a child. During the altercation, investigators say a shot was fired into the ground, allegedly causing ricochet to graze a 10-year-old boy\u2019s finger. He was treated at a hospital, and his injuries are not considered life\u2011threatening, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Officers say they arrested three people at the scene: 35\u2011year\u2011old Shalanda Martin, 37\u2011year\u2011old Cierra Smith, and 35\u2011year\u2011old DeShaan Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Shalanda and Cierra are charged with simple assault, reckless endangerment, and disorderly conduct. DeShaan faces the same charges, along with an additional count of strangulation.<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, Shalanda\u2019s bail was set at $5,000. Cierra and DeShaan were unable to post their $10,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>All three defendants are scheduled for preliminary hearings on June 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; A custody fight in Reading turned violent Monday night when a gunshot allegedly grazed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1646,11228,37864,94206,94205,711,28013,28,736,128,130,129,11235,25093],"class_list":["post-215029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-arrest","tag-assault","tag-bail","tag-child-injury","tag-custody-fight","tag-disorderly-conduct","tag-gunshot","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reckless-endangerment","tag-strangulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215029","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=215029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}