{"id":59842,"date":"2025-12-13T05:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T05:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/59842\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T05:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T05:34:13","slug":"suspect-in-reading-knife-attack-charged-with-attempted-homicide-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/59842\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in Reading knife attack charged with attempted homicide | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Police in Reading say a person is in custody following a knife attack that left the victim with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>29-year-old Jorge Garcia of Reading is charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault, robbery and related offenses.<\/p>\n<p>According to Reading Police, Garcia attacked a woman in the 1100 block of Franklin Street last Thursday during the early morning hours as she took out her trash.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say it doesn&#8217;t appear Garcia and the victim knew each other.<\/p>\n<p>The woman went to the hospital with serious injuries, but police say she&#8217;s expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p>Online court records list Garcia as in custody at Berks County Jail on $250,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Jorge Garcia\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/686bea0f08452.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jorge Garcia<\/p>\n<p>                                    Berks County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Police in Reading say a person is in custody following a knife attack that left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[32558,28,736,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-59842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-jorge-garcia","9":"tag-pennsylvania","10":"tag-reading","11":"tag-reading-city","12":"tag-reading-city-headlines","13":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59842","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=59842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}