{"id":122351,"date":"2026-01-06T17:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/122351\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T17:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:17:08","slug":"man-and-woman-killed-in-hit-and-run-in-long-beach-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/122351\/","title":{"rendered":"Man And Woman Killed In Hit-And-Run In Long Beach Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A man and woman killed in a Sunday hit-and-run in Long Beach have been identified, officials say.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office identified the two killed in the crash at Sixth Street and Atlantic Avenue as Bobbi Smith, 24<\/a>, and Gilberto Lopez, 21<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Officers responded to a fatal hit-and-run involving<\/a> three cars shortly after 10 p.m., the Long Beach Police Department said in a written statement.<\/p>\n

When officers arrived, they found an unresponsive female passenger of a Nissan lying on the roadway and an unresponsive male passenger on the sidewalk, police said.<\/p>\n

Officers tried to help the pair until Long Beach Fire Department rescuers arrived and declared them dead on scene, according to police.<\/p>\n

The driver of a Kia and the driver and front passenger of the Nissan were all taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.<\/p>\n

Initial investigation showed that an orange 2021 BMW 330i was driving east down East 6th Street when it ran a red light and entered the intersection at Atlantic Avenue, police said.<\/p>\n

The BMW hit a Nissan Altima driving south on Atlantic Avenue through the intersection, then continued east and struck a black 2017 Kia Soul traveling north through the intersection, according to police.<\/p>\n

After the crash, the BMW’s driver fled, police said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpeed is being investigated as a possible contributing factor to this collision,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n

Anyone who may have seen the crash is asked to contact LBPD Collision Investigation Detail Detective Edwin Paredes at 562-570-7110. <\/p>\n

City News Service contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A man and woman killed in a Sunday hit-and-run in Long Beach have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-122351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}