{"id":247940,"date":"2026-07-20T20:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247940\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T20:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:33:08","slug":"hit-an-innocent-bystander-berks-county-man-sentenced-in-2023-fatal-shooting-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247940\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hit an innocent bystander\u2019: Berks County man sentenced in 2023 fatal shooting | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jeremiah<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of Berks County District Attorney<\/p>\n

READING, Pa. – A Berks County man has been sentenced in a 2023 fatal shooting that took the life of a 58-year-old woman.<\/p>\n

Jeremiah Santiago of Cumru Twp. was sentenced Monday morning to 23\u00bd-47 years, followed by five years\u2019 probation, according to a social media post from the Berks County District Attorney.<\/p>\n

This sentencing follows last month\u2019s conviction<\/a> of third-degree murder and related charges, officials say.<\/p>\n

According to police, the incident occurred just before midnight on August 3, 2023, at S. 10th Street in Reading. Resident Tina Grier was shot in the face after a bullet went into the front bedroom of a first-floor apartment.<\/p>\n

Grier died on October 31, 2023. Officials say an autopsy determined her death was due to complications from the gunshot wound.<\/p>\n

During the investigation, authorities found evidence that the shots came from outside the residence, and police recovered nine shell casings from the sidewalk.<\/p>\n

Police say Santiago was seen in the area while police were investigating the following day, and agreed to speak to authorities.<\/p>\n

Through video surveillance, investigators determined that Santiago and another man were involved in the incident.<\/p>\n

According to court documents, during a call to an inmate at Berks County Jail three days after the shooting, Santiago allegedly discussed the incident and admitted he “hit an innocent bystander.”<\/p>\n

Santiago was arrested several months later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy of Berks County District Attorney READING, Pa. – A Berks County man has been sentenced in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1646,349,624,92955,24467,736,128,130,129,789,220,795,92954],"class_list":["post-247940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-arrest","tag-berks-county","tag-district-attorney","tag-jeremiah-santiago","tag-probation","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-sentencing","tag-shooting","tag-third-degree-murder","tag-tina-grier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247940","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=247940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}