READING, Pa. \u2013 After a much-needed rest following four days in a Reading courtroom, the grandmother of a slain teen is describing what’s going through her mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I was relieved at the verdict, but I wasn’t happy at the verdict,\u201d said Betty Perch, grandmother of Javien Perch.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The day after a jury found \u00a0Vashon Winfield and Hector Torres guilty of killing 19-year-old Javien Perch in Reading back in 2023, his loved ones are sharing their thoughts. After the word guilty came down, another word is sticking with his grandmother.<\/p>\n
“I still didn’t get a \u2018why,\u2019 still didn’t get a \u2018why,\u2019 not that it would make it any better, but still I have not heard a reason as to why,” Betty Perch said.<\/p>\n
She shared a memory of her grandson as a dancing, singing teen, just starting out life.<\/p>\n
“A happy, funny kid. He just liked to be fun. He liked to be goofy,” Betty said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Javien\u2019s father says he plans to speak to the convicted men at sentencing.<\/p>\n
“I will have an opportunity at sentencing to say something, and that’s something. That’s going to be a while out. I’ll have some time to prepare that,” Jeremy Perch, Javien’s father, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Javien’s dad says his son was beginning to break out of his shell through music, and he wants others to carry on his son’s legacy by finding their voice and passion.<\/p>\n
“We have to do stuff to keep them interested in other things so that they don’t resort to these type of things.”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 After a much-needed rest following four days in a Reading courtroom, the grandmother of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,31,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-144184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-crime","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144184","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=144184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}