{"id":220285,"date":"2026-06-16T10:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220285\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T10:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:15:12","slug":"man-charged-in-route-222-crash-that-killed-berks-fire-chiefs-due-in-court-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220285\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged in Route 222 crash that killed Berks fire chiefs due in court | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man accused of hitting and killing a Berks County fire chief and assistant chief on Route 222 is due in court Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Sepulveda-Rivera is accused of driving under the influence when he swerved, hitting a UTV with Walnuttown Fire Chief Jeff Buck and Assistant Chief Robert Shick inside.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Sepulveda-Rivera then tried to run away.<\/p>\n<p>He is facing two counts of homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence.<\/p>\n<p>He will be formally arraigned at 8:30 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man accused of hitting and killing a Berks County fire chief and assistant chief on Route 222&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-220285","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\/220285","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=220285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}