{"id":187618,"date":"2026-05-08T22:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187618\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T22:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:59:10","slug":"convicted-killers-get-life-no-parole-for-2023-murder-of-reading-teen-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187618\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted killers get life, no parole, for 2023 murder of Reading teen | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Two men have learned their sentences following their conviction in the death of a Reading teenager.<\/p>\n<p>Vashon Winfield and Hector Torres were sentenced to life without parole plus additional years.<\/p>\n<p>A jury found them guilty of first-degree murder in March.<\/p>\n<p>The pair kidnapped and killed 19-year-old Javien Perch in Reading in 2023. Perch was shot multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>Police later found his body in a wooded area near the Reading\/Alsace Township line.<\/p>\n<p>A third suspect sought in the killing, Ansari Jalal, remains at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Two men have learned their sentences following their conviction in the death of a Reading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7673,64135,64132,64134,28,736,128,130,129,64133],"class_list":["post-187618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-alsace-township","tag-ansari-jalal","tag-hector-torres","tag-javien-perch","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-vashon-winfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187618","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=187618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}