{"id":82524,"date":"2026-01-09T16:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82524\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:42:09","slug":"man-wounded-by-police-in-standoff-on-route-61-that-followed-chase-berks-da-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82524\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wounded by police in standoff on Route 61 that followed chase, Berks DA says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was shot during a standoff with officers from multiple law enforcement agencies after he led police on a chase that ended on Route 61 in Ontelaunee Township, Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened before 4:30 a.m., when police ordered Route 61 closed in both directions between Route 73 and Snyder Road for nearly six hours for what was reported as a police incident.<\/p>\n<p>Contacted late Friday morning, Adams described the incident as a police-involved shooting. The man who was shot is expected to survive, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said a state trooper used a driving maneuver to force the suspect\u2019s vehicle to stop.<\/p>\n<p>A standoff with state and local police followed, with members of the Berks County Emergency Response Team, which is specially trained in standoffs, responding.<\/p>\n<p>Adams said county detectives under his purview will investigate along with state police.<\/p>\n<p>He said charges against the man related to the chase are expected to be filed.<\/p>\n<p>Adams didn\u2019t know specifics of what prompted the chase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was shot during a standoff with officers from multiple law enforcement agencies after he led police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1378,623,128,130,129,26456,41569,18598],"class_list":{"0":"post-82524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-ontelaunee-township","9":"tag-police-shooting","10":"tag-reading-city","11":"tag-reading-city-headlines","12":"tag-reading-city-news","13":"tag-route-61","14":"tag-rt-61","15":"tag-standoff"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82524","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=82524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}