Two men were shot in Reading early Monday morning.<\/p>\n
The gunfire was reported around 2 a.m. in the 700 block of North 11th Street in Reading.<\/p>\n
One man was shot in the leg; the other was shot in the arm and leg. Police said their injuries are not life-threatening.<\/p>\n
It’s the latest in a string of shootings on the block this year, but this is the first time anyone was hurt.<\/p>\n
In addition to the injuries, at least one home was hit by a bullet.<\/p>\n
“The reason I thought it was fireworks was because of how quickly the succession of shots were,” said Jan Ingle, whose home was hit.<\/p>\n
She said she found a bullet hole in her front window and another bullet on the third floor window ledge. Her surveillance video captured the sound from the rapid succession of gunfire.<\/p>\n
“I’m just glad that it was early in the morning,” she said. “We were all upstairs. We were in bed.”<\/p>\n
This isn’t the first time 69 News has spoken with Ingle. In June, she explained how bullets damaged a few cars and homes. She hasn’t necessarily been scared until now.<\/p>\n
“They shot my house,” she said. “We got small kids in here. One’s 11, the other is 17.”<\/p>\n
Police have responded to the block at least four times this year. They said that’s a little high for one block, and they’re doing what they can to curb the gunfire.<\/p>\n
Police said in the last year, they’ve implemented a crime-fighting strategy, and while this shooting is unfortunate, there’s been some breakthrough in cutting down on shootings like this.<\/p>\n
“We are significantly down in number of non-fatal shootings and homicides,” said Capt. Paul Reilly, Reading Police Department.<\/p>\n
Police haven’t made any arrests. Anyone on the block or nearby streets is encouraged to check his surveillance cameras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men were shot in Reading early Monday morning. The gunfire was reported around 2 a.m. in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[279,31,10465,139,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-294119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks","tag-crime","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\/294119","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=294119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}