READING, Pa. – Police are accusing a man of shooting into an SUV in Reading, wounding the driver and causing the SUV to crash into a parked pickup truck.<\/p>\n
James Arthur Thomas Jr., 40, of Reading, is charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault, possession of an instrument of crime, and simple assault, according to court paperwork.<\/p>\n
Police in Reading were sent to the 1100 block of North Tenth Street in Reading on Aug. 4 shortly after 6:30 p.m. for the report of a male who had been shot in an SUV, police say in court documents.<\/p>\n
Court paperwork says officers found a man suffering a gunshot wound to the head. The vehicle had crashed into a parked vehicle in the 900 block of Marion Street, according to police.<\/p>\n
Authorities said the vehicle\u2019s trunk door window had been shattered, and what appeared to be a bullet hole entry and exit was seen on the rear seat headrest.<\/p>\n
Video shows Thomas firing multiple rounds in the SUV\u2019s direction, then getting into a sedan and driving south on Mulberry Street, court documents say.<\/p>\n
Investigators found three spent bullet casings near where Thomas was seen firing at the SUV, police say in court documents.<\/p>\n
Video shows the victim\u2019s vehicle traveling west in the 1000 block of Marion Street where it approached a stop sign, authorities said. The vehicle is then seen accelerating and stopping mid-block in the 900 block of Marion Street, according to police.<\/p>\n
Court paperwork says the SUV\u2019s front-seat passenger then got out of the vehicle and ran south on Clover Street.<\/p>\n
Police said the SUV\u2019s passenger was wounded in the left arm in the incident.<\/p>\n
The vehicle then continued west with the driver slumping over and crashing into a parked pickup truck, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
Bail was set at $2 million. Thomas was unable to post bail, court documents say.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing for Thomas is scheduled for Sept. 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – Police are accusing a man of shooting into an SUV in Reading, wounding the driver…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4862,443,28,736,128,130,129,220,10085],"class_list":["post-279136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-aggravated-assault","tag-attempted-homicide","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-shooting","tag-suv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279136","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=279136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}