READING, Pa. \u2014 Police have named three suspects they said were involved in the killing of a teenager in Reading.<\/p>\n
One of the suspects is already in custody while the other two are still wanted. Police said they are actively looking for them.<\/p>\n
“These are young men. They’re kids to most of us, and this goes back to lifestyle and the environment that they’re raised in,” said Capt. Christian Rothermel, Reading Police Department.<\/p>\n
19-year-old Javien Perch’s family reported him missing about a week before his body was found on April 5 in the woods near the Reading-Alsace Township line.<\/p>\n
Police said they obtained video that showed Perch being led by the suspects into a car. He was later shot to death.<\/p>\n
“We were operating under the assumption until that time that he was still alive somewhere in the city, being held possibly,” said Rothermel.<\/p>\n
One of the suspects, Hector Torres, is already in jail on other charges.<\/p>\n
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Vashon Winfield and Ansari Jalal\u00a0<\/p>\n
Berks County Sheriff’s Department <\/p>\n
“Vashon Winfield and Ansari Jalal are both free,” Rothermel said. “We believe they are aware that they are wanted for this crime at this time.”<\/p>\n
Police said Perch knew the suspects “loosely through the streets.”<\/p>\n
Perch was shot 10 times. Investigators found various shell casings of different calibers around him.<\/p>\n
“There was some kind of beef about music or rapping or something about kids in competition,” said Rothermel. “Nothing that we would think would escalate to this kind of violence.”<\/p>\n
All three suspects are facing first-degree murder and related charges.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information on the location of Ansari Jalal or Vashon Winfield is asked to contact the Reading police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2014 Police have named three suspects they said were involved in the killing of a teenager…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,31,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-237237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-crime","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\/237237","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=237237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}