READING, Pa. – A woman is in the hospital after she was stabbed multiple times near a Reading playground over the weekend.<\/p>\n
“I usually take my dog for a walk a little bit after 8:00, so I was getting him ready to come over here,” said Marcia Goodman-Hinnershitz, who lives right across from the Neversink Playground.<\/p>\n
On Saturday night, a woman was stabbed and later found on a trail behind the playground.<\/p>\n
“One of the neighborhood children just came screaming down the hill saying, ‘somebody’s bleeding’,” Goodman-Hinnershitz recalled. “When she said that my immediate reaction was someone’s bleeding, I need to see what I can do for first aid. I didn’t realize this is what was happening.”<\/p>\n
She got up the hill and quickly realized it was more serious.<\/p>\n
“There was someone that was very seriously injured and we knew right away it was a stabbing,” said Goodman-Hinnershitz.<\/p>\n
“The victim was transported to the Reading Hospital and she had suffered approximately a dozen stab wounds,” explained Berks County District Attorney, John Adams.<\/p>\n
Adams says authorities determined it was a domestic incident. He says an ex-boyfriend of the victim, Isaiah Dotson, stabbed the woman, before intentionally crashing his car in the 2300 block of River Road where he was apprehended.<\/p>\n
“Whenever we have any incidents at or near any of our playgrounds it causes concern,” Adams said.<\/p>\n
Neighbors say at the time of the incident, there were several children at the playground. Goodman-Hinnershitz says it’s been a long time since anything like this has happened in the area but now some are on edge.<\/p>\n
“You’re going to need to help them now feel safe again here,” Goodman-Hinnershitz said.<\/p>\n
Dotson is facing attempted homicide charges. Officials say the victim is expected to survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – A woman is in the hospital after she was stabbed multiple times near a Reading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2792,1055,2793,28,736,128,130,129,2791,2794],"class_list":["post-3131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-isaiah-dotson","tag-john-adams","tag-marcia-goodman-hinnershitz","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-hospital","tag-stabbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131","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=3131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}