{"id":279270,"date":"2026-09-04T22:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T22:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279270\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T22:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T22:24:10","slug":"nearly-four-years-after-an-18-year-old-was-stabbed-killed-in-city-park-the-case-remains-unsolved-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279270\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly four years after an 18-year-old was stabbed, killed in City Park, the case remains unsolved | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa.- A stabbing that happened on Sept. 8, 2022, in Reading&#8217;s City Park remains unsolved as authorities say they need the public to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That visual of when I [saw] the ambulance just takes my son and his blood just going down Washington Street,&#8221; says Jose Rosa Ramos&#8217; mom. &#8220;Till this day, that still stays in my head,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>It was four years ago on Sept. 8th that Jose Rosa Ramos was stabbed in City Park in Reading after a fight broke out. He wasn&#8217;t involved, but he died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Four years and still no clues, and no arrests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really don&#8217;t know how I do it every morning,&#8221; his mother tells 69 News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some people don&#8217;t understand the pain of having to walk by my son&#8217;s ashes and be like someday you&#8217;ll get justice,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The stabbing happened in the afternoon in broad daylight with lots of witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>His mother says Ramos was a determined, empathetic, and funny young man with big dreams and goals; now justice seems just out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone that was there was not scared enough to see what happened, but hopefully somebody is fearless enough to come forward,&#8221; Ramos&#8217; mother says.<\/p>\n<p>His mother, heartbroken, is managing to get by with a close-knit support system but says she wants her son&#8217;s killer to face the consequences for taking a life that was lost too soon, as it seemed so promising.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Almost four years in and nothing yet,&#8221; says his mother.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So yeah, we need Reading to step it up; we need the community to step it up. If there&#8217;s so much crime, there&#8217;s got to be some good in between that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Berks County District Attorney says he&#8217;s certain someone out there knows something, and he&#8217;s asking anyone with information about the stabbing to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa.- A stabbing that happened on Sept. 8, 2022, in Reading&#8217;s City Park remains unsolved as authorities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1056,6008,116879,740,107968,736,128,130,129,2794,116878,890],"class_list":["post-279270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county-district-attorney","tag-city-park","tag-jose-rosa-ramos","tag-justice","tag-public-appeal","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-stabbing","tag-unsolved-case","tag-victim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279270","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=279270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}