Lamont Ivan Russell, 55, of Long Beach, was also charged with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, driving under the influence of an alcoholic beverage causing injury, driving with a 0.8% blood-alcohol content causing injury, and driving under the influence of alcohol and a drug causing injury, City News Service is reporting.<\/p>\n
Russell is said by police to have reversed over a curb<\/a> around 11:30 am Monday 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 “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 LACrimeStoppers.org.<\/a><\/p>\n This story will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n City News Service contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lamont Ivan Russell, 55, of Long Beach, was also charged with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, driving under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-205176","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\/205176","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=205176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}