{"id":306162,"date":"2026-10-14T02:26:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T02:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306162\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T02:26:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T02:26:31","slug":"former-nfl-player-antonio-dennard-shot-and-killed-in-reading-pennsylvania-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306162\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NFL Player Antonio Dennard Shot and Killed in Reading, Pennsylvania \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

An investigation is underway after a former NFL player was shot and killed outside a bar in Reading, Pennsylvania.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On October 16, Muhlenberg Township Police were notified that a gunshot victim had arrived at Reading Hospital after being shot outside of the Legend\u2019s Bar & Grill on 2545 North 5th Street Highway in Reading.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The victim, later identified as 32-year-old Antonio Dennard, was pronounced dead at the hospital at 3:15 a.m. Sunday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dennard was a former NFL cornerback, according to NBC Sports.<\/a> He was signed by the Jacksonville Jaguars as a college free agent out of Langston University in 2012. Dennard never played in a regular-season game but was on the practice squads for the Jaguars and Green Bay Packers. He also spent time with the New York Giants.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you have any information on the shooting, please call the Muhlenberg Township Police Department at 610-929-5454 or the Berks County District Attorney’s Office at 610-478-6000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway after a former NFL player was shot and killed outside a bar in Reading,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[10353,28,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-306162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-new-york-giants","tag-pennsylvania","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\/306162","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=306162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}