{"id":284652,"date":"2026-09-12T19:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284652\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T19:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:06:10","slug":"man-faces-life-in-prison-for-2023-murder-in-reading-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284652\/","title":{"rendered":"Man faces life in prison for 2023 murder in Reading | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; A man accused of shooting and killing a Reading man in July 2023 was convicted of 1st degree murder in a Berks County court Friday, according to a Berks County District Attorney social media post.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Vincent Sanchez shot Ellis Garman on July 21, 2023 at S. Sixth and Cherry streets in downtown Reading.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.<\/p>\n<p>The case was investigated by City of Reading Police Department CI Joshua Sheller, and tried by ADAs Rachel Louviaux and Dennis Skayhan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; A man accused of shooting and killing a Reading man in July 2023 was convicted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[31,710,2892,2894,26492,10043,8538,2897,783,28,20848,2890,787,8537,736,128,130,129,118666],"class_list":["post-284652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-crime","tag-crimes","tag-criminal-justice","tag-criminal-law","tag-criminal-procedure","tag-criminology","tag-imprisonment-and-detention","tag-misconduct","tag-murder","tag-pennsylvania","tag-penology","tag-public-law","tag-punishment","tag-punishments","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-sentencing-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284652","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=284652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}