{"id":254199,"date":"2026-07-29T00:46:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254199\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T00:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:46:25","slug":"gunfire-claims-lives-of-4-people-inside-reading-home-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254199\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunfire claims lives of 4 people inside Reading home | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading police are set to release more information about a shooting that took the lives of four people in the city on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the four victims were found dead inside a home in the 100 block of South Third Street shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday; a fourth person died after being rushed to Reading Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not yet released the victims&#8217; names or what may have led to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators continue to hold the home as a crime scene, allowing them to collect evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Police are still on scene after last nights quadruple homicide. The building landlord just told us the shooting happened in a first floor unit. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/69News?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@69News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sy9t5dR7rO\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/sy9t5dR7rO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Katiera Winfrey WFMZ (@KatieraWFMZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatieraWFMZ\/status\/957995945047846913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 29, 2018<\/a> Neighbors told 69 News they were shocked to hear of the shooting. People gathered near the house Sunday night, crying and consoling each other.<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking for the public&#8217;s help in the investigation. Anyone who may have information should call Reading police at 610-655-6116.<\/p>\n<p>Information can also be passed on to <a href=\"http:\/\/alertberks.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crime Alert Berks County<\/a> via anonymous text to 847411, starting the message with keyword alertberks, or by calling 877-373-9913.<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading police are set to release more information about a shooting that took the lives of four people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[279,10465,139,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-254199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks","tag-dni","tag-news","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\/254199","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=254199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}