A 59-year-old man suspected in a fatal 2024 hit-and-run crash in Long Beach in December 2024 has been taken into custody, authorities announced Thursday.<\/p>\n
Mario Jesus Escobar Acosta of Woodland was arrested Monday by the U.S. Marshals Service in Sacramento and later booked at the Long Beach City Jail on suspicion of hit-and-run resulting in a fatal injury, with a bail set at $50,000, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
Officers responded to a traffic collision at 4:45 p.m. Dec. 26, 2024, at California Avenue and San Antonio Drive, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
Responding officers located a female driver whose vehicle had been struck by a hit-and-run driver, police said. The woman declined medical treatment upon their arrival, but later took herself to a hospital for treatment. The victim, identified as 78-year-old Nikki Rash, died of her injuries on Jan. 4, 2025, at the hospital.<\/p>\n
A preliminary investigation revealed that a tan Toyota Avalon was being driven eastbound on San Antonio Drive, and the driver ran a red light at California Avenue, striking Rash\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe driver briefly got out of his car, then got back in and fled the scene,\u201d the police department said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Detectives were investigating distracted driving as a possible factor leading to the fatal collision.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding the crash was urged to contact LAPD Collision Investigation Detail Detective Ashley Van Holland at 562-570-7355. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or visit lacrimestoppers.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 59-year-old man suspected in a fatal 2024 hit-and-run crash in Long Beach in December 2024 has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,8901,1491,161,131,133,132,1555,22713,33729],"class_list":["post-155889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-custody","tag-fatal","tag-hit-and-run","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-man","tag-suspected","tag-taken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155889","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=155889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}