{"id":241837,"date":"2026-07-12T22:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241837\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T22:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:07:19","slug":"two-dead-infant-hospitalized-following-apparent-murder-suicide-in-reading-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241837\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead, infant hospitalized following apparent murder-suicide in Reading | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Authorities in Reading are investigating an apparent murder-suicide that left two people dead and an infant seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>It happened just before 4:30 p.m. Monday at a home in the 1200 block of Locust Street, Reading.<\/p>\n<p>Initial emergency dispatches called for a shooting involving a pediatric victim at the location.<\/p>\n<p>Berks County District Attorney John Adams confirmed that two people are dead and an infant injured during the incident was transported by helicopter for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say there is no threat to the public at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Authorities in Reading are investigating an apparent murder-suicide that left two people dead and an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[22513,1055,59756,39645,28,736,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-241837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-county-district-attorney","tag-john-adams","tag-locust-street","tag-murder-suicide","tag-pennsylvania","tag-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\/241837","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=241837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}