{"id":220304,"date":"2026-06-16T10:44:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220304\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T10:44:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:44:33","slug":"coroner-man-dies-after-being-shot-on-readings-south-side-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220304\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner: Man dies after being shot on Reading&#8217;s south side | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; A man who was shot multiple times in south Reading early Tuesday afternoon has died, according to the Berks County coroner.<\/p>\n<p>The gunfire was reported shortly before 1 p.m. in the 200 block of Pearl Street, between Chestnut and Spruce streets.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Shooting on Pearl Street in Reading\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5ffdea3a03245.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Jim Vasil | 69 News<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports from the scene were that the victim was shot three times. An ambulance rushed him to Reading Hospital, where he died later Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Uniformed RPD officers cordoned off a large area as they scoured the block as well as nearby Gem Alley for evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have not yet provided any additional information about the shooting or the victim.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Shooting on Pearl Street in Reading\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5ffdea3336e3e.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Jim Vasil | 69 News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; A man who was shot multiple times in south Reading early Tuesday afternoon has died,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,31,10967,28,736,128,130,129,220,890,38569],"class_list":["post-220304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime","tag-gunfire","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-shooting","tag-victim","tag-weapon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220304","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=220304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}