READING, Pa. | Reading Police released new information on Friday regarding a violent homicide that took place on the 600 block of Pine Street.<\/p>\n
Officers told 69 News they responded to South 7th Street & Pine Street for a shooting with a victim down in the street, at approximately 7:40 p.m., on May 17.<\/p>\n
Officers located a male victim with multiple gunshot wounds, once they got to the scene. The male, Ricardo C\u00e9spedes, 37, was found dead according to police statements.<\/p>\n
A man identified as Jason Cepeda later came forward at Reading City Hall, police say, where he reported he was involved in the incident.<\/p>\n
During the course of the investigation, police say it was determined that the victim was in the 600 block of Pine Street with a large tree branch. Cepeda was driving his vehicle through the block, when the victim allegedly threw the branch at the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Cepeda then allegedly got out of his vehicle to confront the victim, and said the victim approached him in an aggressive manner. Cepeda told police he believed the victim had a weapon.<\/p>\n
Cepeda reported that he fired his gun at the victim, then drove to City Hall. He was charged with third-degree murder, manslaughter, and related charges, officials stated. He is still awaiting arraignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. | Reading Police released new information on Friday regarding a violent homicide that took place on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8003,7999,8000,28,736,128,8002,130,129,1751,8001],"class_list":["post-9718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-city-hall","tag-i-almost-got-away-with-it","tag-jason-cepeda","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-hall","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-police","tag-ricardo-cspedes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9718","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=9718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}