{"id":160,"date":"2025-10-14T22:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T22:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:28:06","slug":"suspect-surrenders-in-double-homicide-at-reading-garage-party-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect surrenders in double homicide at Reading garage party | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

READING, Pa. – Authorities say Raul Perez-Diaz is now in custody, days after police issued an arrest warrant for his alleged role in a deadly double shooting in Reading.<\/p>\n

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Reading man charged in double homicide at Nicolls Street garage party<\/a><\/p>\n

Berks County District Attorney John Adams says Perez-Diaz turned himself in Tuesday afternoon at Central Processing inside the Berks County Courthouse.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had been wanted for two counts of first-degree murder, third-degree murder, aggravated assault, and related charges,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n

Investigators say the shooting happened around 6 a.m. on September 27th during what they describe as an after-hours party in the 800 block of Nicolls Street.<\/p>\n

Two men, Victor Ure\u00f1a-Yami, 25, and Victor Jim\u00e9nez, 21, were killed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a shootout\u2026 at least two guns involved, and not the type of incident that we should have in our community,\u201d Adams said. \u201cTwo people lost their life. The defendant himself was shot, treated at Reading Hospital, and released.\u201d<\/p>\n

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“Looking for information”: Two dead, one wounded after shooting in Reading<\/a><\/p>\n

Authorities say Perez-Diaz initially told investigators he fired in self-defense, but forensic testing linked his weapon to the fatal shots.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of those guns\u2026 was possessed by the defendant, Raul Perez-Diaz. That gun was recovered at his apartment after the incident,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n

The district attorney says the violence started after people left another late-night gathering, fueled by alcohol and guns.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing good happens after midnight,\u201d Adams said. \u201cHaving people drinking all evening with guns\u2026 what\u2019s it result in? Tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perez-Diaz is being held in the Berks County Jail without bail while awaiting a preliminary hearing. Authorities are urging anyone with information about the incident to contact Reading Police or Crime Alert Berks County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – Authorities say Raul Perez-Diaz is now in custody, days after police issued an arrest warrant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,31,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-160","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\/160","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=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}