{"id":78449,"date":"2026-01-05T16:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78449\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:58:07","slug":"reading-police-take-man-accused-in-shooting-death-into-custody-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78449\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading police take man accused in shooting death into custody | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; The Reading\u00a0Police Department has taken a man accused in the shooting death of a Laureldale man into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Xavier Concepci\u00f3n, 32, was taken into custody Wednesday\u00a0at his residence in Leesport, according to a news release from Reading police.<\/p>\n<p>He is charged with first-and third-degree murder, as\u00a0well as related murder charges.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Aguirre Jr. was shot multiple times\u00a0in the 300 block of Church Street on December 10, 2020, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Concepci\u00f3n is currently being held at Berks County Prison.<\/p>\n<p>A second suspect, Ramses Miller, 18, was arrested on April 22, 2021, in connection to the homicide and is currently being held in Lehigh County Prison, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information relative to the case is asked to contact the Reading Police Department at 610 -655-611, Berks County District Attorney\u2019s Office at 610-478-6000, or Crime Alert Berks County at 877-373-9913.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; The Reading\u00a0Police Department has taken a man accused in the shooting death of a Laureldale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[10738,16424,40007,128,130,129,1306],"class_list":{"0":"post-78449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county-district-attorneys-office","9":"tag-leesport","10":"tag-lehigh-county-prison","11":"tag-reading-city","12":"tag-reading-city-headlines","13":"tag-reading-city-news","14":"tag-reading-police-department"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78449","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=78449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}