READING, Pa. – A Reading man is facing serious charges after allegedly stabbing his ex-girlfriend multiple times inside a local store.<\/p>\n
57-year-old Jose Dejesus is charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and related offenses.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Reading Police were called to the Dollar Tree store in the 1100 block of Rockland Street for a report of a woman stabbed in the neck and bleeding.<\/p>\n
Arriving officers located the female victim in the rear of the store.<\/p>\n
According to court documents, the victim told police her ex-boyfriend, later identified as Dejesus, entered the store, immediately headed towards her and then stabbed her as she attempted to flee into a storage. Authorities say the victim was stabbed in the back, shoulder and neck area.<\/p>\n
Police say a second victim was allegedly cut by Dejesus on the head while trying to wrestle the suspect off of the female victim.<\/p>\n
Online court records list Dejesus as in custody at Berks County Jail after failing to post $500,000 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – A Reading man is facing serious charges after allegedly stabbing his ex-girlfriend multiple times inside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,8335,31,710,2892,2894,10044,16489,66575,1856,2893,2897,783,28,736,128,130,129,1751,109,3636],"class_list":["post-146059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-berks-county-jail","tag-crime","tag-crimes","tag-criminal-justice","tag-criminal-law","tag-deviance-sociology","tag-dollar-tree-store","tag-jose-dejesus","tag-law-enforcement","tag-law-related-events","tag-misconduct","tag-murder","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-police","tag-violence","tag-violent-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146059","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=146059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}