{"id":210754,"date":"2026-03-08T21:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T21:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/210754\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T21:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T21:19:08","slug":"man-runs-over-kills-elderly-father-with-vehicle-long-beach-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/210754\/","title":{"rendered":"Man runs over, kills elderly father with vehicle, Long Beach police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was arrested on suspicion of murder after running over his elderly father with a vehicle on Saturday, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longbeach.gov\/police\/press-releases\/homicide--600-block-of-west-wardlow-avenue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">news release<\/a>, LBPD said officers responded to the 600 block of West Wardlow Avenue at 1:53 p.m. Saturday for a family disturbance between an 80-year-old man and his 50-year-old son.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, police found the 80-year-old pinned underneath a vehicle. Assisted by neighbors, who provided officers with a floor jack, officers were able to extricate the man.<\/p>\n<p>He was later pronounced dead at the scene from his injuries. He&#8217;s been identified as Long Beach resident William Porter.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations revealed the suspect as Robert Porter, also of Long Beach, police said. He was arrested on suspicion of murder, and his bail is set at $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>No additional details were immediatley made clear. No motive was released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested on suspicion of murder after running over his elderly father with a vehicle on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-210754","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\/210754","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=210754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}