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Article: City sees 4th fatal shooting this month: An 18-year-old city man dies in Reading Hospital after being shot in the chest on North Ninth Street, police say.
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- Reading Eagle (Reading, PA)
- Article date:
- August 28, 2006
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Byline: Rebecca Vandermeulen
Aug. 28--An 18-year-old city man has become the fourth person this month to die in a shooting on Reading's streets.
Alejandro Rodriguez died Sunday about 9:15 a.m. after he was shot in the chest Saturday night about 11 on the sidewalk in the 700 block of North Ninth Street.
Reading police said a friend drove Rodriguez, of 1006 Locust St., to St. Joseph Medical Center after the shooting. Sgt. John M. Solecki said Rodriguez was then taken to Reading Hospital, where he died.
Rodriguez's friend gave police false information on where the shooting occurred, Solecki said. Police later found two shell casings at ...