Halifax police still trying to solve 2005 murder of Jonathan Reader

HRP is asking for the public's help solving the 2005 murder of Jonathan Reader. (Source: HRP)

Halifax Regional Police (HRP) are asking the public for help solving the 20-year-old murder of Jonathan Reader.

Officers responded to the intersection of Radcliffe Drive and Dunbrack Street on Aug. 7, 2005, around 4 a.m., where they found 19-year-old Reader unconscious in the roadway.

Reader was transported to the hospital, where he died from his injuries.

An autopsy determined he was the victim of homicide and his cause of death was blunt force trauma.

HRP says investigators found Reader had been at the Pacifico Bar and Grill downtown Halifax with friends and left with a woman around 1:57 a.m.

He was last seen walking alone around 3:20 a.m. on Dutch Village Road in the direction of Lacewood Drive.

Police continue to ask the public for any information that could help solve Reader’s murder.

“Investigators hope that the passage of time will encourage them to do the right thing and come forward with what they know,” a release from HRP reads.

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