{"id":128854,"date":"2026-01-11T06:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T06:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/128854\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T06:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T06:20:07","slug":"police-arrest-woman-accused-of-two-deadly-crashes-in-long-beach-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/128854\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest woman accused of two deadly crashes in Long Beach \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 24-year-old woman was in custody Saturday after being linked to two separate crashes that killed three people in Long Beach, according to police.<\/p>\n

Detectives identified Long Beach resident Ahkeyajahnique Owens as the suspected driver in two separate fatal crashes just months apart.<\/p>\n

The first collision on Oct. 6, 2025, police located an unconscious 35-year-old bicyclist near East 4th Street and Bonito Avenue. The bicyclist, identified as Long Beach resident Raul Augustin Gallopa, was transported to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n

The second crash was reported as a hit-and-run on Jan. 4, 2026, along Atlantic Avenue and East 6th Street. Long Beach police said two motorists, a man and a woman, were killed and three others were injured.<\/p>\n

Investigators were able to use forensic evidence and video footage to link the crashes to Owens, according to Long Beach PD.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 7, Ownens turned herself in at the Long Beach Police Department. She was booked at the Long Beach City Jail on a warrant for felony vehicular manslaughter related to the October 2025 traffic collision. Owens bail was set at $200,000.<\/p>\n

Detectives have presented the case linked to the Oct. 6 collision to the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office, according to Long Beach police.<\/p>\n

The January crash adds to the 2026 tally after Long Beach recorded one of the deadliest years for drivers and pedestrians in 2025.<\/a> According to police data, at least 54 people were killed in a deadly crash in Long Beach last year.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information on the collisions is asked to contact LBPD Collision Investigation Detail Detective Edwin Paredes at 562-570-7110. Anonymous tips may be submitted through “LA Crime Stoppers” by calling 1-800-222-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 24-year-old woman was in custody Saturday after being linked to two separate crashes that killed three people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-128854","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\/128854","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=128854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}