A 45-year-old Reading resident has been identified as the man fatally shot early Friday in an apartment in the 500 block of Lancaster Avenue.<\/p>\n
Alex B. Rosado-Laboy, who lived in the apartment where the shooting occurred, was pronounced dead at 4:17 a.m. Friday, according to Berks County Coroner Matthew J. Stitzel.<\/p>\n
Stitzel said an autopsy is scheduled for Monday in Reading Hospital and will be performed by forensic pathologist Dr. Neil Hoffman. A ruling on the cause and manner of death are pending completion of the autopsy and the ongoing investigation, Stitzel said.<\/p>\n
A second man was shot in the apartment and was taken to Reading Hospital by ambulance, District Attorney John T. Adams said.<\/p>\n
The suspected shooter has been identified and is being sought by Reading police, Adams said. The individual\u2019s name hasn\u2019t been released. The district attorney described him as a person of interest.<\/p>\n
The shootings are not believed to be random acts of violence, police said. Investigators determined the suspect forcibly entered the residence about 2 a.m., and both victims suffered gunshot wounds, they said in a report.<\/p>\n
The apartment is on the east side of the block, just south of Grace Street, where there are several storefronts with second-floor apartments.<\/p>\n
It was the second fatal shooting in a week in Reading. On July 4, a 16-year-old boy was fatally shot during an apparently random dispute in north Reading outside an Independence Day gathering. Another teen was arrested and charged with criminal homicide.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information related to the homicide investigation is asked to contact Reading police at 610-655-6116. Information can also be provided anonymously by calling Crime Alert Berks County\u2019s anonymous tip line at 1-877-373-9913. Crime Alert offers cash rewards for information that leads to an arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 45-year-old Reading resident has been identified as the man fatally shot early Friday in an apartment in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,182,139,28,736,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-241600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241600","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=241600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}