READING, Pa.- Berks County District Attorney John Adams says they have identified the victim and the shooter from the shooting on the 600 block of Avenue B in the Glenside section of Reading on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Adams says the shooter is not in custody, and that the shooting could have been an act of self-defense.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“At this point? We believe that the individual who is cooperating with authorities was not the person who began this dispute,” Adams said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Investigators say they responded to a call of a shooting at 3:55 p.m.<\/p>\n
Police say when they arrived, they found 20-year-old Amir Steele with a gunshot wound in the chest. He was later pronounced dead at Reading Hospital.<\/p>\n
Adams says they have identified the shooter, and that he is cooperating with the investigation.<\/p>\n
“He did come into City Hall, provided the police with a statement,” Adams said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The DA says based on video evidence, Steele was armed, and he believes Steele was the aggressor.<\/p>\n
“Clearly, this is a situation where self-defense may be the appropriate resolution of this incident,” Adams said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Glenside Elementary School was placed in SECURE action due to police activity.<\/p>\n
The district said in a statement that it will provide assistance and resources to students who may have witnessed or been otherwise impacted by the shooting.<\/p>\n
“This type of gun violence near a school at the time when school is letting out is so dangerous and that the fact that no one was injured is comforting,” Adams said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The DA says his office is not ready to make a ruling just yet.<\/p>\n
“We’re really looking to maybe try to determine what the motive was. Was there a motive?” Adams explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reading Police say this is still an active investigation and asks anyone with any information to contact the Reading Police at (610) 655-6116<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa.- Berks County District Attorney John Adams says they have identified the victim and the shooter from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,31,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-308483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-crime","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308483","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=308483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}