{"id":202738,"date":"2026-03-03T20:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202738\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T20:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:56:06","slug":"man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-dui-after-long-beach-collision-that-killed-toddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202738\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested on suspicion of DUI after Long Beach collision that killed toddler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Long Beach man was arrested on suspicion of three charges, including a felony for driving under the influence, after he reversed into three individuals, killing a young girl, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longbeach.gov\/police\/press-releases\/traffic-fatality--400-block-of-maine-avenue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">news release<\/a>, the Long Beach Police Department said Lamont Ivan Russell, 55, was driving a 2013 Chevrolet Captiva around 11:27 a.m. on the 400 block of Maine Avenue on Monday when the collision occurred. He attempted to make a turn on the residential street when he reversed onto the sidewalk at a high rate of speed, hitting the three victims.<\/p>\n<p>The three female victims, ages 45, 12 and 20-months, were each transported to a local hospital. The 20-month-old girl was later pronounced dead. Her identity is yet to be released publicly.<\/p>\n<p>The two other victims are in stable condition, police said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to DUI, Russell was arrested on suspicion of felony vehicular manslaughter and misdemeanor battery. He&#8217;s currently being held at Long Beach City Jail with bail set at $335,000.<\/p>\n<p>Police said speed, distraction and impaired driving all appear to be factors in the collision.<\/p>\n<p>No additional details were immediately made available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Long Beach man was arrested on suspicion of three charges, including a felony for driving under the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-202738","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\/202738","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=202738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}