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Felon Beat Woman With Fire Extinguisher, Found With Arsenal And Explosive: Bern Twp Police
A convicted felon who brutally attacked two people at a Pennsylvania gas station was found hoarding weapons and an explosive device, Bern Township police announced on Thursday, Feb. 20.
Shemell Grosvenor, of Leesport, was identified as the suspect behind a violent assault at a Bern Township gas station in August 2024, where he allegedly smashed one victim in the head with a fire extinguisher, causing a concussion, and left another with a deep cut near her eye, authorities said.
In early February 2025, a tip led investigators to Grosvenor’s home on the 1000 block of Cathy Dr., where they not…
Man Found Guilty In Murder Of Berks County Air Force Veteran
A 29-year-old man was found guilty in the murder of a Berks County air force veteran, authorities said.
Raphael E. Perez-Rodriguez, of Paterson, NJ, was convicted by a jury Thursday, April 20, of first-degree murder, burglary, robbery, and related charges in the killing of 76-year-old Dennis Fink, the Berks County DA's Office said.
Perez-Rodriguez fatally stabbed Fink at his Bern Township home on July 17, 2020, prosecutors said.
His sentencing is scheduled for Friday, April 22.
Perez-Rodriguez had already been serving time for a 2020 incident in Reading in which he sho…
Water Authority Worker, 38, Dies In Wyomissing Trench Collapse
Support is surging for the wife of a water authority worker killed in a Berks County trench collapse earlier this week.
Western Berks Water Authority employee Cody Gipprich, 38, of Shillington, was doing routine work in a constructed pit with a colleague on Cambridge Avenue near Meadow Lane around 8:30 a.m. in Wyomissing on Wednesday, WFMZ reports.
At some point, a pipe or valve failed, causing high-pressure water to shoot out on Gipprich, the outlet reports.
Gipprich's coworkers and bystanders rushed to help him before crews pulled his body from the narrow pit, approximately 8 feet deep,…
