Tina M. Grier, 58, was asleep in the front bedroom of her first-floor apartment on South 10th Street in Reading on the night of August 3, 2023, when multiple shots were fired from the sidewalk outside. One bullet tore through the wall and struck her in the face. She was taken to Reading Hospital with a catastrophic traumatic brain injury and never regained the ability to communicate with her family. After nearly three months in a rehabilitation center, she died on October 31, 2023, from complications of the gunshot wound.

Investigators recovered nine shell casings from the sidewalk and used surveillance video to identify two men in the area around the time of the shooting. One man was later identified as Jeremiah Santiago by an officer who recognized his ponytail. Police say a recorded phone call Santiago made to an inmate three days after the shooting included an admission that he had hit an innocent bystander, and that Tina’s husband had purchased crack cocaine from the other man shortly before the gunfire. Santiago was arrested on August 13, 2024, and charged with first-degree murder, third-degree murder, aggravated assault, and firearms offenses.

Does anyone have information about the events outside the South 10th Street apartment on the night of August 3, 2023, or about the two men seen on surveillance video?