A man was shot in a leg after a fight broke out inside Riverside Beneficial Social Club over the weekend, Reading police said.<\/p>\n
Police were called about 2:30 a.m. Sunday to the club at 1742 Pear St. for a reported shooting.<\/p>\n
Officers located the shooting victim nearby in the 100 block of Bern Street. The 37-year-old man was taken by Reading Fire Department medics to Reading Hospital for treatment of a single gunshot wound to his leg, police said.<\/p>\n
Investigators said it appears the shooting was the result of a fight in the club.<\/p>\n
The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to call Reading police at 610-655-6116 or contact Crime Alert Berks at 877-373-9913.<\/p>\n
Tips can be made via Crime Alert Berks County\u2019s anonymous tip line, 877-373-9913. Tips can also be sent via text, using the keyword \u201calert berks,\u201d to 847411. Crime Alert will pay a cash reward for information leading to an arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was shot in a leg after a fight broke out inside Riverside Beneficial Social Club over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286930,"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-286929","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\/286929","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=286929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}