{"id":267194,"date":"2026-08-18T00:14:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267194\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T00:14:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:14:46","slug":"authorities-in-reading-identify-man-and-woman-found-dead-following-apparent-murder-suicide-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267194\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities in Reading identify man and woman found dead following apparent murder-suicide | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Authorities have identified the man and woman who died in an apparent murder-suicide in Reading earlier this week that left a two-month-old child injured.<\/p>\n<p>Police surrounded a home in the 1200 block of Locust Street on Monday afternoon after responding to a 911 call from a neighbor reporting gunshots.<\/p>\n<p>Berks County District Attorney John Adams says it appears the man, identified as Jesus Pe\u00f1aloza Cruz, shot Selena Zavala-Hernandes, a two-month-old child and himself.<\/p>\n<p>Adams says it is believed at this point in the investigation that Cruz and Zavala-Hernandes were the child&#8217;s mother and father.<\/p>\n<p>At last check, the child was in stable-but-critical condition at a Philadelphia hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Authorities have identified the man and woman who died in an apparent murder-suicide in Reading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[112684,39645,28,736,128,130,129,1751,112685],"class_list":["post-267194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-jesus-pealoza-cruz","tag-murder-suicide","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-police","tag-selena-zavala-hernandes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267194","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=267194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}