Christopher U. Cuevas, a 21-year-old Hispanic / Latino male from Reading, Pennsylvania, died on June 6, 2017, after being shot in Reading. His death was recorded as a gun-violence homicide, and his obituary said he passed at Reading Hospital. Before his life was cut short, he was working at Wal-Mart as a stock person and was preparing for his first amateur boxing match, giving the case the added weight of a young man still building toward something.
The shooting happened outside a
McDonald’s in Reading. Online incident listings describe the event as involving one person shot and killed and another person wounded or injured. The case quickly became a homicide investigation, and Reading police later brought charges against a man in connection with the killing. WFMZ identified the case in reports about a man being charged with murder in the shooting outside McDonald’s and later being ordered to stand trial in the fatal shooting.
The suspect connected in online search records to the case was Samvel Gaboyan, described in those records as a Reading man held for court in the June shooting. The available online information indicates he was accused in connection with the gunfire that killed Cuevas, with the case moving beyond an initial arrest stage and into court proceedings. The reported charges included murder, and the shooting was treated by authorities as a criminal homicide rather than an accidental death.
The public online material available for this case gives more detail about the arrest and preliminary court movement than about the final outcome. I found online references showing that a man was charged with murder and later ordered to trial, but I did not find a reliable online record confirming a conviction, acquittal, plea, sentence, prison term, or other final punishment for the accused. Based on the available online information, the clearest confirmed path of the case is that Christopher Cuevas was fatally shot outside a Reading McDonald’s, an arrest followed, and the accused man was held for court on murder-related allegations, while any final conviction or sentencing outcome is not clearly available from the accessible online sources.
