Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA Cumberland Valley High School student was shot and killed on July 4th. The Berks County Coroner named the victim of the shooting in Reading as Felipe Rodriguez Jr. of Hampden Township. He was a rising junior at Cumberland Valley. According to court documents, Rodriguez was at a family party on Windsor Street when Daniel Cruz Jr. and a family member, who were not invited to the party, stopped in. A family member started yelling about garbage in the alley and Cruz later got a gun and shot Rodriguez in the back.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tREADING, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
A Cumberland Valley High School student was shot and killed on July 4th. <\/p>\n
The Berks County Coroner named the victim of the shooting in Reading as Felipe Rodriguez Jr. of Hampden Township. <\/p>\n
He was a rising junior at Cumberland Valley. <\/p>\n
According to court documents, Rodriguez was at a family party on Windsor Street when Daniel Cruz Jr. and a family member, who were not invited to the party, stopped in. <\/p>\n
A family member started yelling about garbage in the alley and Cruz later got a gun and shot Rodriguez in the back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tonight we now know that *** Cumberland Valley High School student was shot and killed on July 4th.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[49063,7472,349,14018,13808,28378,30302,104016,104015,11750,104017,104012,99323,758,5296,104021,104013,92364,28,736,128,130,129,62784,35733,104018,95906,220,104019,104020,890,104014],"class_list":["post-242654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-alley","tag-back","tag-berks-county","tag-berks-county-coroner","tag-court-document","tag-cumberland-valley","tag-cumberland-valley-high-school","tag-cumberland-valley-student","tag-daniel-cruz-jr","tag-family-member","tag-family-party","tag-felipe-rodriguez-jr","tag-fields","tag-gun-violence","tag-hampden-township","tag-high-school-student","tag-july-4-shooting","tag-july-4th","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-pennsylvania","tag-reading-shooting","tag-rising-junior","tag-rodriguez","tag-shooting","tag-shot-and-killed","tag-student-shooting","tag-victim","tag-windsor-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242654","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=242654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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