{"id":236169,"date":"2026-07-05T18:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236169\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T18:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:06:07","slug":"16-year-old-suspect-allegedly-kills-under-age-male-in-reading-shooting-incident-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236169\/","title":{"rendered":"16-year-old suspect allegedly kills under-age male in Reading shooting incident | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; A 16-year-old male was the victim of a fatal shooting Saturday night in Reading.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the alleged shooter is 16-year-old Daniel Cruz of Reading.<\/p>\n<p>Police have taken Cruz into custody. Cruz has been charged with criminal homicide and aggravated assault.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred in the 1000 block of Windsor Street around 11:30 p.m. Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Stay tuned to 69 News for more information, or go to <a href=\"http:\/\/WFMZ.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WFMZ.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; A 16-year-old male was the victim of a fatal shooting Saturday night in Reading. Officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[31,710,10044,1856,2893,2897,128,130,129,109,3636],"class_list":["post-236169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-crime","tag-crimes","tag-deviance-sociology","tag-law-enforcement","tag-law-related-events","tag-misconduct","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-violence","tag-violent-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236169","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=236169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}