{"id":282836,"date":"2026-09-10T08:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282836\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T08:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:52:20","slug":"reading-shooting-leaves-19-year-old-dead-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282836\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading shooting leaves 19-year-old dead | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Reading Police said multiple shots were fired between a number of individuals in the area of Muhlenberg and South 14th streets around 8:45 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Police say at this time, they do not know exactly how many people may have fired.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Disla, age 19, died at the scene, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was found behind a residence in the 1300 block of Muhlenberg Street,&#8221; said Reading Police Captain Cheryl Pentheny.<\/p>\n<p>Police had a large area taped off following the shooting and some cars in the area had sustained damage from gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors who did not want to go on camera said they could hear the shots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Reading Police Department Criminal Investigations Division is actively working this case with assistance from our office,&#8221; said Berks County District Attorney John Adams.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/christian-disla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GoFundMe page<\/a> has been arranged for Disla&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now, I would plead with the public to please contact the Reading Police Department and provide us with any information that you may have on this incident,&#8221; Adams added.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they do not know at this time if Disla was the intended target.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Reading Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Reading Police said multiple shots were fired between a number of individuals in the area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8021,4829,28,736,128,130,129,220],"class_list":["post-282836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-christian-disla","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282836","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=282836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}