A man was killed and another injured during a shooting early Friday morning after a suspect forcibly entered a residence in Reading, according to police.<\/p>\n
Officers with the Reading Police Department were dispatched to the 500 block of Lancaster Avenue at approximately 2 a.m. on July 10 for a report of a shooting.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, they found two adult men suffering from possible gunshot wounds. Police said the preliminary investigation determined that a suspect had forcibly entered the residence, and during the incident both victims sustained injuries. One of the victims suffered fatal injuries.<\/p>\n
Initial emergency dispatch reports indicated the suspect fled the scene. Police said the shooting is not believed to be a random act of violence.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the Reading Police Department at 610-655-6116. Anonymous tips can also be submitted to Crime Alert Berks County by calling 1-877-373-9913. Cash rewards are available for information that leads to an arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was killed and another injured during a shooting early Friday morning after a suspect forcibly entered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-240374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240374","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=240374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}