{"id":70630,"date":"2025-12-25T23:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/70630\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T23:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:15:15","slug":"police-searching-for-man-charged-with-2-murders-in-reading-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/70630\/","title":{"rendered":"Police searching for man charged with 2 murders in Reading \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are searching for a man who has been charged with shooting and killing two men in Reading in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/tag\/berks-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Berks County<\/a> on Sept. 27, 2025. <\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred at the 800 block of Nicholls Street at around 5:58 a.m., police said. <\/p>\n<p>The two killed, 25-year-old Victor Urena-Yami and 21-year-old Victor Jimenez, were found unresponsive by police at the entrance of an open garage, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The suspect, 31-year-old Raul Perez-Diaz, arrived at the hospital with injuries from a shooting at around 6:36 a.m., police said. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-10-09-215001.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Perez-Diaz initially told police he acted in self-defense after an altercation with the two men, police said.<\/p>\n<p>However, police say they uncovered witness testimony during their investigation that contradicted Perez-Diaz&#8217;s side of the story. <\/p>\n<p>When investigators began to search for Perez-Diaz for more questioning, he told them he would meet them at City Hall in Reading, but never showed, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Perez-Diaz has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of third-degree murder, as well as other related charges, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone who sees Perez-Diaz or has any useful information on his whereabouts is urged to call the Reading Police Department at 610-655-6116 or Crime Alert Berks County at 1-877-373-9913.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a man who has been charged with shooting and killing two men in Reading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-70630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70630","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=70630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}