READING, Pa. – A preliminary hearing was held Monday afternoon for a 16-year-old charged in the deadly shooting of another teen last month.<\/p>\n
According to the police, 16-year-old Daniel Cruz Jr shot Felipe Rodriguez Jr. outside a Fourth of July gathering in the 1100 block of Windsor Street just before midnight.<\/p>\n
Multiple eyewitnesses, including Cruz’s father, testified, with his father saying he told his son to go get his gun after a dispute over trash in the street outside the party.<\/p>\n
Additionally, a key eyewitness included a neighbor who said he saw Daniel Cruz Senior being jumped by his car and that his son yelled: “Stop jumping my dad.”<\/p>\n
The defense for Cruz Jr moved to have the charges changed to self-defense in the case, arguing that what happened does not constitute first-degree murder.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the prosecutors argued this is a tragedy but also a crime. They say they believe they’ve met their burden.<\/p>\n
An arraignment hearing is slated for October 1st at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n
The defense for the teen told 69 News she plans to file a decertification request to have the case moved to juvenile court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – A preliminary hearing was held Monday afternoon for a 16-year-old charged in the deadly shooting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[55414,67287,25990,539,8623,736,128,130,129,42026,220,14839,15608],"class_list":["post-271580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-arraignment","tag-juvenile-court","tag-murder-charge","tag-pa","tag-preliminary-hearing","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-self-defense","tag-shooting","tag-teenager","tag-testimony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271580","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=271580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}