Father charged with vehicular homicide in crash that killed 1-year-old son

READING, Pa. – A 23-year-old man has been charged with vehicular homicide eight months after his 1-year-old son died in a car crash.

Police say Isaiah Mikaal Rakiem, of Reading, was driving a Jeep Gladiator on Nov. 19, 2022, when it collided with another vehicle at the intersection of Oley Street and Centre Avenue in Reading. Both vehicles sustained heavy damage.

The 1-year-old who died was among four passengers in the back seat of Rakiem's truck, which he was driving with a suspended driver's license. There was also a passenger in the front right of the vehicle.

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Isaiah Mikaal Rakiem was driving a truck when it collided with another vehicle at the intersection of Oley Street and Centre Avenue in Reading.

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