READING, Pa. – A man convicted of shooting and killing his grandfather inside his Reading home will spend up to four decades in prison.<\/p>\n
Brandon Villasenor was sentenced last month to 17-40 years in prison after pleading guilty to 3rd degree murder.<\/p>\n
In April 2024, investigators determined Villasenor went to his grandfather’s Reading home in the 1300 block of N. 13th Street and shot him once in the head. 74-year-old Manuel Molina was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Authorities say officers found a 9mm caliber shell casing at the crime scene and later uncovered a 9mm caliber handgun in Villasenor’s apartment.<\/p>\n
Villasenor then ran away from the scene and went to his apartment, where he was taken into custody a short time later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – A man convicted of shooting and killing his grandfather inside his Reading home will spend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[15671,31,710,2892,2894,15701,457,13951,1856,15672,2897,783,7075,28,736,128,130,129,109,3636],"class_list":["post-23625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-brandon-villasenor","tag-crime","tag-crimes","tag-criminal-justice","tag-criminal-law","tag-culpable-homicide","tag-homicide","tag-killings","tag-law-enforcement","tag-manuel-molina","tag-misconduct","tag-murder","tag-murders","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-violence","tag-violent-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23625","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=23625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}