{"id":76314,"date":"2026-01-02T17:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76314\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T17:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:53:14","slug":"overnight-shooting-leaves-one-dead-in-reading-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76314\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight shooting leaves one dead in Reading | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; The Reading Police Department Criminal Investigations Division is investigating an overnight shooting that left one man dead.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to the 200 block of Maple Street just before 1 a.m. Tuesday for a report of a shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving officers found 27-year-old Darius Francis suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Francis was transported to Reading Hospital where he later died of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"200 block Maple Street homicide\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/66bb7f575a4bb.image.png\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>An SUV is towed from the crime scene in the 200 block of Maple Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                    WFMZ-TV | Chad Blimline <\/p>\n<p>Police say they have no information on the shooter(s) to release at this time. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call Reading Police Department at 610-655-6116 or report anonymously to Crime Alert Berks at 1-877-373-9913.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; The Reading Police Department Criminal Investigations Division is investigating an overnight shooting that left one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4828,39270,28,736,128,130,129,1306,39271],"class_list":["post-76314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-criminal-investigation","tag-darius-francis","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-police-department","tag-reading-police-department-criminal-investigations-division"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76314","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=76314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}