READING, Pa. – The jury in the trial for two men charged in the deadly shooting of a Reading teenager reached a verdict Thursday, after four days of testimony.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vashon Winfield and Hector Torres were both found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the shooting death of 19-year-old Javien Perch.<\/p>\n
The two men were also facing third-degree murder and conspiracy charges, but the jury did not need to render a verdict on those, given that the men were found guilty on the first-degree charges.<\/p>\n
Winfield, however, was found not guilty on a \u201cfirearms not to be carried without license\u201d charge.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The fourth day of this trial featured continued testimony from investigators.<\/p>\n
The grandmother of the victim in this case told 69 News she just wants to know the \u201cwhy\u201d behind the deadly shooting that took place in March of 2023.<\/p>\n
Thursday, the jury heard more details about how cell phone and location finding technology was used to establish a timeline of the incident.<\/p>\n
Primary investigator John McKeever returned to the stand to continue his testimony from Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Following McKeever, Reading Police Department Sgt. Trevor Atkins took the stand, delving deeper into cell phone and social media evidence used to the build the case against Torres and Winfield.<\/p>\n
The jury heard closing arguments from the prosecution and defense attorneys and got their charges from the judge in the afternoon session.<\/p>\n
Investigators say Perch was shot multiple times.<\/p>\n
His body was found in a wooded area near the Reading-Alsace Township line back in the spring of 2023 days after loved ones reported him missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – The jury in the trial for two men charged in the deadly shooting of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[65570,65572,1021,64134,65571,13474,128,130,129,62784,26527,65569],"class_list":["post-143387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-cell-phone-evidence","tag-closing-arguments","tag-investigation","tag-javien-perch","tag-jury-deliberation","tag-murder-trial","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-pennsylvania","tag-shooting-death","tag-torres-winfield-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143387","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=143387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}