{"id":115632,"date":"2026-02-16T23:57:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/115632\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T23:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:57:31","slug":"two-convicted-in-fatal-shooting-of-teen-in-brookline-park-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/115632\/","title":{"rendered":"Two convicted in fatal shooting of teen in Brookline Park | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Two individuals involved in the fatal shooting of a teen in Brookline Park are headed to prison.<\/p>\n<p>Berks County District Attorney John Adams announced Thursday that Anthony Boria and Henry Madera, Jr. were each found guilty of third-degree murder, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, perjury, false swearing and firearms not to be carried without a license following a two-day bench trial. The pair were found not guilty of conspiracy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On March 14, 2022, authorities received reports of a large fight in Reading&#8217;s Brookline Park involving anywhere from 15 to 30 individuals.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Anthony Boria\" 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\/02\/6723cbd5df18d.image.png\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Anthony Boria<\/p>\n<p>Police arrived to find 18-year-old Amiere Bibbs dead from a gunshot wound. Three other students involved in the fight were shot as well.<\/p>\n<p>The fatal encounter sent shockwaves through the community, including the Governor Mifflin School District where the victims were all students.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say it started as a fistfight in Brookline Park, involving students and former students. Once the fight was over, they say there was an exchange of words between both sides.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Henry Madera, Jr.\" 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\/02\/6723cc4828292.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Henry Madera, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>One side of the confrontation, which included Boria and Madera, pulled out guns and fired shots towards the crowd. A total of 43 shell casings were recovered from the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Part of the fight was caught on cellphone video, which was a key piece of evidence in identifying the shooters.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the two gave false testimony in front of a grand jury, claiming they were nowhere near the park at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Sentencing is scheduled for December.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Julian Evans, who was also charged in the case, is due in court for a status hearing scheduled for November 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Two individuals involved in the fatal shooting of a teen in Brookline Park are headed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[54972,54971,54974,1055,54973,54975,28,736,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-115632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-amiere-bibbs","9":"tag-anthony-boria","10":"tag-henry-madera","11":"tag-john-adams","12":"tag-julian-evans","13":"tag-mifflin-school-district","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-reading","16":"tag-reading-city","17":"tag-reading-city-headlines","18":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115632","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=115632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}