LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A motorist who allegedly backed up and over three people Monday morning, killing a toddler, has been arrested.<\/p>\n
The driver, now identified as Lamont Ivan Russell, 55, of Long Beach, allegedly reversed over a curb<\/a> and struck the 20-month-old girl, her 45-year-old mother, and her young cousin, all of whom were in front of an apartment building at the 400 block of Maine Avenue, near downtown Long Beach.<\/p>\n “Speed, distraction, and impaired driving appear to have contributed to this collision,” the Long Beach Police Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n Russell was booked into the Long City City Jail on felony vehicular manslaughter, felony DUI, and misdemeanor battery charges. Bail was set at $335,000.<\/p>\n “The preliminary investigation indicates that a 2013 Chevy Captiva was making a turning movement when the vehicle reversed, at a high rate of speed, off the roadway and onto the sidewalk, colliding with the three pedestrians,” police said in a statement Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n Police also said the toddler, whose identity is being withheld pending notification of family members, was pronounced dead after being rushed to a nearby hospital by responding officers.<\/p>\n The girl’s mother, according to family, suffered several broken ribs, while the other child suffered a broken leg. Both were taken to the hospital by the Long Beach Fire Department and are listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n Anyone who may have witnessed the collision is asked to contact LBPD Collision Investigation Detail Detective Dougherty at (562) 570-7355. Anonymous tips may be submitted through “LA Crime Stoppers” by calling 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), downloading the “P3 TIPS” app to your smartphone (available at the Apple App Store and Google Play), or visiting www.LACrimeStoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A motorist who allegedly backed up and over three people Monday morning, killing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-202663","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\/202663","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=202663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}