Interesting story - Bicyclist Attacked, Shoots Attackers

[Sants]

And to think my wife and I ride our bikes on this trail!
Looks like I'll be carrying from now on!
http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=361359

[kbcobra26]

Why do they have the victim in custody??

Sounded like self defense to me..

[Curmudgeon]

Why do they have the victom in custody??

Sounded like self defense to me..

Maybe you should read up on Gerald Ung.

[Sants]

That's what I thought. Can't wait to hear the details. The city scum have been robbing nice people walking out there for a while now. They wait for them to come near the bridge and jack them. It's about time these thugs get what is coming to them!

I almost wander if it wasn't a vigilante type effort on the part of the victim?

[k9loki]

The whole incident was a goat fuck from the get go . It was dispatched to the wrong departments first , took them a while to find out exactly where it happened and where everyone was, 911 had to use a 3rd party " language line" to get interpretation , but one of the first things said on the dispatch was the caller stated he shot two people in self defense


And OP , next time include the actual headline in the thread title, or something more descriptive , so when someone else searches prior to their posting, they know its the same thing and not double posting it.

[k9loki]

********UPDATE*********

http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=361359

One man was in custody after he reportedly shot two men — one fatally — who tried to rob him on a bicycle trail near the Schuylkill River pedestrian bridge between Reading and West Reading, officials said.

Police from several departments responded to the area beneath a bridge span of the West Shore Bypass after receiving a 9-1-1 call for a shooting with two victims about 11 a.m., officials said.

According to initial reports, a man ran across the pedestrian bridge to the Reading side of the river and flagged down someone in the 200 block of Riverfront Drive, near Reading Area Community College.

Within minutes, Reading and West Reading police, state police and Berks County deputy sheriffs found one man dead and another wounded in a sliver of Cumru Township on the opposite side of the pedestrian bridge from the city’s Riverfront Park.

The area is just south of West Reading’s Bertolet Fishing Dock at South First Avenue and Chestnut Street.

The wounded man was shot in the neck and taken by ambulance to Reading Hospital, officials said.

Police did not release anyone’s name.

According to officials:

The suspect, who had been riding a bicycle, remained in the area after the shooting and told police he shot the men in self-defense because they were trying to rob him. He was taken to a police car and taken to the Cumru police station for questioning.

Police took another man nearby into custody, but it was unclear how he was connected to the shooting.

Cumru police took over the investigation when it was determined the shooting happened in the township.

Chief Jed Habecker and detectives from his department were assisted by detectives with the forensic services unit of the district attorney’s office.

District Attorney John T. Adams and First Assistant District Attorney M. Theresa Johnson were at the scene briefly.

Investigators declined to provide details of the shooting.

[cakeshooter]

He got taken into custody for self defense? I mean, I guess he has to "prove" that he was doing it in self defense, but really....how does one do that? Two guys against one.....????

[k9loki]

There were TWO taken into custody. A man that was also found up the trail further.

[middlefinger]

Wfmz is reporting it was 3 teens between ages of 15-16 with the 16 year old the fatality .....riding the bicycle was an older adult

[Lexington]

Well, hopefully the victim's story will be verified and he will be released with his weapon in short order.

Sounds to me like these losers picked the wrong man to rob!