{"id":158660,"date":"2026-04-06T17:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158660\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:21:10","slug":"man-charged-with-homicide-by-dui-after-crash-killed-2-pennsylvania-fire-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158660\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with homicide by DUI after crash killed 2 Pennsylvania fire chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE \u2014 Pennsylvania prosecutors have arrested a man less than 48 hours after allegedly crashing into and killing two on-duty fire chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>According to ABC27-WHTM, Alexander Sepulveda Rivera, 26, has been charged with two counts of homicide by DUI.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera was reportedly behind the wheel of a Toyota Camry that struck a utility vehicle occupied by Walnuttown Fire Company Chief Jeff Buck and Assistant Chief Robert Shick Jr.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wmar2news.com\/local\/2-pennsylvania-fire-chiefs-killed-in-crash-while-searching-for-missing-person\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2 Pennsylvania fire chiefs killed in crash while searching for missing person<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pair was actively searching for a missing woman along Route 222, roughly 45 miles outside of Philadelphia, when they were hit.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera is accused of fleeing the crash scene. <\/p>\n<p>WHTM adds that police found a crack pipe on Rivera, who admitted to smoking marijuana earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s now being held on $500,000 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE \u2014 Pennsylvania prosecutors have arrested a man less than 48 hours after allegedly crashing into and killing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[71480,71830,71831,71835,71832,71833,71834,71481,71482,71483,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-158660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-walnuttownfirecompany","9":"tag-abc27-whtm","10":"tag-alexander-sepulveda-rivera","11":"tag-alexander-sepulveda-rivera-arrest","12":"tag-alexander-sepulveda-rivera-homicide-by-dui","13":"tag-alexander-sepulveda-rivera-jeff-buck","14":"tag-alexander-sepulveda-rivera-robert-shick-jr","15":"tag-assistant-chief-robert-shick-utv-crash","16":"tag-assistant-chief-robert-shick-walnuttown-fire-company","17":"tag-assistant-fire-chief-robert-shick-funeral","18":"tag-pennsylvania","19":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","20":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158660","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=158660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}