{"id":171737,"date":"2026-04-21T10:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171737\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T10:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:46:19","slug":"driver-accused-of-hitting-killing-fire-chiefs-in-berks-due-in-court-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171737\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver accused of hitting, killing fire chiefs in Berks due in court | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND TWP., Pa. &#8211; The driver accused of hitting and killing a Berks County fire chief and assistant chief is due in court Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Sepulveda Rivera is accused of weaving back and forth on Route 222 in Richmond Township.<\/p>\n<p>Police say he then hit and killed Walnuttown Fire Chief Jeff Buck and Assistant Chief Rob Shick.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say he and a 46-year-old woman ran away but were found nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say Sepulveda Rivera claimed he fell asleep and the crash woke him up. He allegedly admitted to smoking marijuana the day of the crash and said a crack pipe found in the car was his.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say he did not have a driver&#8217;s license, and there was a warrant for his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>He is due in court Tuesday for a preliminary hearing at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RICHMOND TWP., Pa. &#8211; The driver accused of hitting and killing a Berks County fire chief and assistant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-171737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171737","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=171737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}