{"id":287047,"date":"2026-09-16T05:34:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287047\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T05:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:34:30","slug":"jury-finds-man-guilty-in-fatal-2023-shooting-in-reading-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287047\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury finds man guilty in fatal 2023 shooting in Reading | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

READING, Pa. \u2013 Last week, a jury convicted a man of a deadly shooting in Reading.<\/p>\n

The Berks County District Attorney\u2019s Office said jurors on Friday convicted Vincent Sanchez of first-degree murder for shooting and killing Ellis Garman Sr.<\/p>\n

The shooting happened in July 2023 at South Sixth and Cherry streets in Reading. Authorities previously said a midday altercation between Sanchez and Garman eventually became physical before being broken up by witnesses.<\/p>\n

As Garman tried to leave the scene, though, Sanchez fired a single shot from inside his car, which fatally struck Garman in the chest.<\/p>\n

Authorities were not able to locate Sanchez until May 2024, when U.S. Marshals arrested him in New York City.<\/p>\n

Sanchez faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

‘I’m just grateful that God heard us’: Victim’s family relived after murder suspect arrested in NYC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 Last week, a jury convicted a man of a deadly shooting in Reading. The Berks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1056,119460,42933,28,736,128,130,129,6860],"class_list":["post-287047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county-district-attorney","tag-ellis-garman-sr","tag-first-degree-murder","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-vincent-sanchez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287047","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=287047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}