{"id":98139,"date":"2026-01-27T19:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/98139\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T19:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:15:18","slug":"rpd-man-18-dead-after-fight-in-reading-city-park-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/98139\/","title":{"rendered":"RPD: Man, 18, dead after fight in Reading City Park | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2014 A fight led to a person being fatally stabbed in Reading City Park on Thursday, according to the city police.<\/p>\n<p>RPD officers were dispatched around 3:30 p.m. to the area of the park&#8217;s basketball courts off Washington Street.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A male victim was transported to Reading Hospital,&#8221; the police said in a statement to 69 News. &#8220;We are working to confirm a suspect description.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The victim was later identified as 18-year-old Jose E. Rosa-Ramos, who died at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Police described the assailant as a man wearing a ski mask, black shirt, and gray shorts. He is still at large.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Stabbing in Reading City Park\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/631a668d04427.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Tim Lind | 69 News<\/p>\n<p>Crime scene tape stretched across Washington Street between North 11 Street and Columbus Drive as investigators searched for evidence and interviewed witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has information about the stabbing can contact <a href=\"http:\/\/crimealertberks.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crime Alert Berks County<\/a> by calling 877-373-9913 or by texting a tip to 847411, starting the message with keyword alertberks.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Crime Alert Berks County text-a-tip\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/5d8d105b2ed0b.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2014 A fight led to a person being fatally stabbed in Reading City Park on Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[10951,5956,349,6008,16901,31,10950,206,736,128,130,129,48059,2794,450,890,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-98139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-argument","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-berks-county","11":"tag-city-park","12":"tag-confrontation","13":"tag-crime","14":"tag-fight","15":"tag-police","16":"tag-reading","17":"tag-reading-city","18":"tag-reading-city-headlines","19":"tag-reading-city-news","20":"tag-rpd","21":"tag-stabbing","22":"tag-suspect","23":"tag-victim","24":"tag-violence"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98139","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=98139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}