{"id":458076,"date":"2025-12-19T16:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/458076\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:12:12","slug":"philadelphia-man-convicted-of-2022-double-homicide-in-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/458076\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia man convicted of 2022 double homicide in Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Philadelphia man has been convicted of murder in a 2022 double homicide outside of a Reading convenience store.<\/p>\n

Following a three-day trial, a Berks County jury on Thursday found Nyjee Jefferson, 30, guilty of first- and third-degree murder. He is scheduled to be sentenced in February.<\/p>\n

Jefferson was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of 18-year-old Jose Ventura-Jimenez, and of third-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Alejandro Drullar.<\/p>\n

The teenagers were shot and killed outside of a convenience store in northwest Reading just after sunrise on Feb. 20, 2022.<\/p>\n

According to police:<\/p>\n

Jefferson got into an altercation with the teens inside a convenience store at Schuylkill Avenue and West Greenwich Street at about 7 a.m.<\/p>\n

The fight spilled into the parking lot, where Jefferson shot both teens.<\/p>\n

Ventura was shot seven times, and Drullar was shot once.<\/p>\n

About two hours after the killings Jefferson was captured by security footage<\/a> checking himself into a Philadelphia hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound. He was arrested a few days later.<\/p>\n

The killings came amid a rash of violence<\/a> in the city during which seven people were killed in a five-week span.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Philadelphia man has been convicted of murder in a 2022 double homicide outside of a Reading convenience…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":295349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,44940,356,728,50,1448,2830,1311,6215,7157,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-458076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-berks-county","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-pa","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-philadelphia","16":"tag-reading","17":"tag-top-stories-reg","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115747117276683111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}