In the early hours of June 18, 2023, a shooting ambush on the 300 block of Penn Street in Reading, Pennsylvania, left two men critically wounded and later dead. Around 1:15 a.m., a vehicle carrying 29-year-old Jamar Oliver and another man, Jorge Mercado-Castro, was fired upon and then crashed at the intersection of 5th and Penn streets. Police found Oliver outside the car with gunshot wounds to his head and arm; Mercado-Castro was inside the crashed vehicle with a gunshot wound to his head.

Two suspects were arrested the next day: 24-year-old Kevin Irizarry-DeMarco and 31-year-old John Roman. Both men later pleaded guilty to counts of third-degree murder and related charges. Irizarry-DeMarco received a sentence of 27½ to 55 years; Roman was sentenced to 40 to 80 years and also pleaded to possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and conspiracy.

Are there details about that night or the vehicle’s movements leading up to the ambush that anyone can share?