READING, Pa. – Reading Police have identified a man who died in a shooting in Berks County on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
The victim, 20-year-old Amir Steel, died from a gunshot wound to the chest at Reading Hospital following the incident.<\/p>\n
Around 4 p.m., officers responded to the 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
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 later pronounced dead, according to city police.<\/p>\n
Authorities say investigators have a person of interest who is cooperating with the investigation.<\/p>\n
According to police, video surveillance footage captured a fight between the victim and the male just prior to the shooting.<\/p>\n
Police said the investigation is active and ongoing.<\/p>\n
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. – Reading Police have identified a man who died in a shooting in Berks County on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308264,"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-308263","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\/308263","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=308263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}