{"id":133822,"date":"2026-03-09T21:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133822\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T21:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:33:21","slug":"teen-receives-45-years-to-life-for-murder-of-reading-woman-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133822\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen receives 45 years to life for murder of Reading woman | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; A teen convicted of first-degree murder in Reading learned his fate Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>19-year-old Henry Mendoza was sentenced to 45 years to life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>In June of 2023, Mendoza shot and killed 30-year-old Natalie Classen after a verbal altercation.<\/p>\n<p>He was 17 at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Mendoza pleaded guilty to the murder last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; A teen convicted of first-degree murder in Reading learned his fate Thursday. 19-year-old Henry Mendoza&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7049,7051,28,736,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-133822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-henry-mendoza","tag-natalie-classen","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","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\/133822","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=133822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}