{"id":202385,"date":"2026-03-03T16:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202385\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:38:06","slug":"driver-jailed-for-long-beach-crash-into-porch-that-killed-girl-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202385\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver jailed for Long Beach crash into porch that killed girl \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 55-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and assault <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/2026\/03\/02\/girl-dies-2-others-injured-after-suv-reverses-onto-porch-of-long-beach-home\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">following a crash that killed a toddler who was sitting on a porch in front of a Long Beach apartment complex<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A woman and a second girl were also struck and injured in the crash, which happened about 11:30 a.m. Monday, March 2, in the 400 block of Maine Avenue when the driver of an SUV, Lamont Russell, allegedly reversed into the group, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The toddler was identified by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner as 1-year-old Myrah Hunter.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver was backing up the SUV, possibly trying to turn around, when the vehicle jumped the curb. He remained at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>According to Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department\u2019s inmate records, Russell was booked on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and assault and was being held in lieu of $335,000 bail in downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear why Russell is suspected of assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 55-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and assault following a crash that killed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,723,138,131,133,132,137,100,136],"class_list":["post-202385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202385","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=202385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}