{"id":203281,"date":"2026-03-04T03:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203281\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T03:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:53:10","slug":"driver-jailed-for-long-beach-porch-crash-that-killed-toddler-injured-2-others-pasadena-star-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203281\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver jailed for Long Beach porch crash that killed toddler, injured 2 others \u2013 Pasadena Star News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 55-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence after he <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\">allegedly recklessly reversed his SUV onto the porch of a Long Beach apartment complex<\/a>, killing a toddler and injuring a girl and woman, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Lamont Ivan Russell, a Long Beach resident, stayed on scene after the crash. He was also arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor battery, police said.<\/p>\n<p>He was being held in jail on a $335,000 bail amount.<\/p>\n<p>Russell was driving in the 400 block of Maine Avenue just before 11:30 a.m. Monday when he made a \u201cturning movement\u201d and reversed at a high rate of speed off the street and onto the sidewalk, hitting the two girls and the woman, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The toddler, identified by the Medical Examiner\u2019s Office as 1-year-old Myrah Hunter, was rushed by officers to a hospital, but she died.<\/p>\n<p>A 45-year-old woman and a 12-year-old girl were taken by paramedics to another hospital, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said speed, distraction and impaired driving appeared to have contributed to the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 55-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence after he&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-203281","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\/203281","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=203281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203281\/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=203281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}