{"id":308136,"date":"2026-10-16T18:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308136\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T18:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:44:11","slug":"authorities-have-person-of-interest-in-deadly-reading-shooting-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308136\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities have person of interest in deadly Reading shooting | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Police in Reading say they have a person of interest after a shooting in the city left a man dead Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to 600 block of Avenue B in the Glenside section of the city for a report of a shooting, the Reading Police Department said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found a man at the scene with a gunshot wound to the chest, city police said. Officers began lifesaving measures, and the man was taken to Reading Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to city police.<\/p>\n<p>City police said investigators have a person of interest who is cooperating with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage shows a fight between the victim and the male just prior to the shooting, city police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the investigation is active and ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are asking anyone who witnessed the incident, or who has information about it, to contact the Reading Police Department Criminal Investigations Division at 610-655-6116 or Crime Alert Berks at 877-373-9913.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Police in Reading say they have a person of interest after a shooting in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[31,457,206,736,128,130,129,1306,220],"class_list":["post-308136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-crime","tag-homicide","tag-police","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-police-department","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308136","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=308136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}