{"id":36521,"date":"2025-11-17T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/36521\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T12:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:34:09","slug":"reading-man-sentenced-in-fatal-shooting-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/36521\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading man sentenced in fatal shooting in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Reading man has been sentenced to state prison after pleading guilty in a pistol-whipping that led to the shooting death of a city man in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Jayquan Sanchez, 36, was sentenced Thursday by Berks County Court Judge Eleni Dimitriou Geishauser to 15 to 30 years in a state prison after pleading guilty to third-degree murder.<\/p>\n<p>The district attorney\u2019s office said Sanchez pistol-whipped Quadell Spradley during an altercation and the gun went off, striking Spradley in the head on July 31, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded about 3:50 a.m. to a reported shooting in the 1200 block of Church Street.<\/p>\n<p>Spradley was transported to Reading Hospital, where he later died of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Following an investigation, Reading police in August 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2022\/08\/08\/arrest-warrant-issued-in-july-31-reading-homicide\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">obtained a warrant<\/a> for Sanchez\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Police said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2023\/08\/09\/suspect-arrested-in-california-for-2022-shooting-death-in-reading\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sanchez was taken into custody<\/a> on Aug. 5, 2023, by police in Chico, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>They said Sanchez was at a house party when Chico police responded to a call for a reported shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Officers cleared the residence and found Sanchez hiding under a bed.<\/p>\n<p>Chico police initially were unable to identify Sanchez after he gave false identification, they said.<\/p>\n<p>After a fingerprint scan, Sanchez\u2019s identity was confirmed, and Chico police noticed his arrest warrant for murder, along with other active warrants from the Chico police department.<\/p>\n<p>Spradley\u2019s death was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2022\/07\/31\/reading-police-investigating-two-overnight-homicides\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of two homicides<\/a> that took place that morning in Reading.<\/p>\n<p>At about 3 a.m., officers responded to the 400 block of Spring Garden Street for a report of shots fired. They found victim Edwin Rivera-Valentin, who died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>In that case, Luis Cepeda-Morales, 23, of Reading was <a href=\"http:\/\/readingeagle.com\/2022\/08\/20\/suspect-reading-killing-arrested-puerto-rico\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">taken into custody <\/a>in August 2022 by police in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Cepeda-Morales fired eight rounds from a rifle following an argument outside the suspect\u2019s home in the 400 block of Spring Garden Street.<\/p>\n<p>Cepeda-Morales was sentenced by Judge Madelyn S. Fudeman in July 2023 to 6 to 12 years in a state prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Reading man has been sentenced to state prison after pleading guilty in a pistol-whipping that led to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,46,182,139,28,736,128,130,129,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-36521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-reading","14":"tag-reading-city","15":"tag-reading-city-headlines","16":"tag-reading-city-news","17":"tag-top-stories-reg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36521","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=36521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}