{"id":129740,"date":"2026-03-04T22:21:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129740\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T22:21:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:21:39","slug":"one-arrested-two-still-sought-in-murder-of-reading-teen-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129740\/","title":{"rendered":"One arrested, two still sought in murder of Reading teen | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"

READING, Pa. – Police say a man is in custody and charged in the murder of a 19-year-old who went missing in late March.<\/p>\n

20-year-old Hector Torres is charged with first, second and third degree murder, robbery, kidnapping and related offenses in the death of Javien Perch<\/a> of Reading.<\/p>\n

Perch was reported missing March 28 after loved ones say he went to walk to a friend’s house but never arrived.<\/p>\n

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Vashon Winfield and Ansari Jalal\u00a0<\/p>\n

Berks County Sheriff’s Department <\/p>\n

Authorities allege that Torres, along with Vashon Winfield and Ansari Jalal, crossed paths with Perch in the area 10th and Greenwich Streets and lured the teen into a vehicle.<\/p>\n

Perch’s body was found several days later in a wooded area near the Reading\/Alsace Township line. Investigators say he was shot multiple times.<\/p>\n

Police have not provided a motive for the kidnapping and killing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Torres is in Berks County Jail after being denied bail.<\/p>\n

Winfield and Jalal are still on the loose.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information on their whereabouts is asked to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – Police say a man is in custody and charged in the murder of a 19-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,31,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-129740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-crime","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129740","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=129740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}