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Hector Torres<\/p>\n
WFMZ-TV | Chad Blimline<\/p>\n
His bullet-riddled body was found in a wooded area outside the city back in the spring of 2023.<\/p>\n
The jury heard opening statements from the commonwealth and the attorneys representing Torres and Winfield.<\/p>\n
The girlfriend of Javien Perch’s brother, one of the last people to see Javien alive, was first on the stand to testify.<\/p>\n
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Vashon Winfield<\/p>\n
WFMZ-TV | Chad Blimline<\/p>\n
Police and other key witnesses are expected later this week.<\/p>\n
A third suspect – Ansari Jalal – remains at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – A murder trial is underway Monday in Reading in connection with the death of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64135,349,31,710,2894,64132,64134,16644,16640,783,13474,736,128,130,129,26527,15608,7076,64133],"class_list":["post-139788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-ansari-jalal","tag-berks-county","tag-crime","tag-crimes","tag-criminal-law","tag-hector-torres","tag-javien-perch","tag-jury","tag-legal-procedure","tag-murder","tag-murder-trial","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-shooting-death","tag-testimony","tag-trials","tag-vashon-winfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139788","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=139788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}