Police are investigating a shooting Monday afternoon in southeast Reading.<\/p>\n
Officers were called shortly before 4 p.m. for a shooting in the area of 11th and Cherry streets, police said. They found a shooting victim whose wound wasn\u2019t believed to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n
The victim was transported to Reading Hospital for treatment. Police released no further information.<\/p>\n
The investigation is continuing.\u00a0 Anyone with information is asked to contact Reading police at 610-655-6116. Tips can also be made via Crime Alert Berks County\u2019s anonymous tip line, 877-373-9913, or by texting tips to 847411 and typing ALERTBERKS + the tip, or by downloading the ALERTBERKS app.<\/p>\n
Crime Alert will pay a cash reward for information leading to an arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating a shooting Monday afternoon in southeast Reading. Officers were called shortly before 4 p.m. for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,182,139,28,736,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-311064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311064","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=311064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}