{"id":139370,"date":"2026-03-16T04:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139370\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T04:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:31:10","slug":"suspect-arrested-in-readings-first-homicide-of-2021-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139370\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested in Reading&#8217;s first homicide of 2021 | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2014 Police have made an arrest in Reading&#8217;s first homicide of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Valentine Meredith was apprehended Friday on charges that include criminal homicide, aggravated assault, and robbery.<\/p>\n<p>The charges stem from the shooting of Tyre Little, 25,\u00a0 in the 200 block of Pear Street on the afternoon of Jan. 12.<\/p>\n<p>An ambulance rushed Little to Reading Hospital, where he later died of multiple gunshot wounds, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have not said whether they have determined a motive for the homicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2014 Police have made an arrest in Reading&#8217;s first homicide of 2021. Valentine Meredith was apprehended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,31,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-139370","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\/139370","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=139370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}