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Suspect In Custody After Broad Daylight Shooting: Reading PD

One man is in police custody and another is in the hospital after shots rang out on an Allentown street around noon on Thursday, June 8. 

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Reading police

Photo Credit: Facebook/City of Reading Police Department

It happened on the 1000 block of Windsor Street, the department wrote in a release. An "altercation between two males" led to one shooting the other, investigators believe. 

Police responded to the scene and arrested the suspect after a brief search, they said. The victim was treated at Reading Hospital with a single, non-life-threatening gunshot wound, authorities added. 

Police did not name the suspect but said the incident presented "no ongoing threat to public safety." 

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