A Long Beach man was arrested on suspicion of murder after hitting his elderly father with his car on Saturday, police said.<\/p>\n
Officers responding to reports of a \u201cfamily disturbance\u201d in Long Beach\u2019s Wrigley Heights neighborhood found 89-year-old William Porter pinned underneath a car outside a home in the 600 block of West Wardlow Blvd. around 2 p.m. Saturday, according to a news release issued by the police department. <\/p>\n
Neighbors and responding officers tried to free Porter by using a floor jack to raise the car, but he died at the scene while being treated by paramedics, police said. <\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s son, 50-year-old Robert Porter, remained at the scene and was later arrested on suspicion of murder. <\/p>\n
Police did not disclose a motive or say what led to the fatal vehicle strike. Robert Porter is being held in lieu of $2 million bail. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Long Beach man was arrested on suspicion of murder after hitting his elderly father with his car…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96993,96994,7,9,8,283,5225,75082,1331,16280,2322,236,595,2489,7756,10132,96996,96995],"class_list":["post-210860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-50-year-old-robert-porter","tag-89-year-old-father","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-car","tag-elderly-father","tag-long-beach-man","tag-murder","tag-neighbor","tag-officer","tag-police","tag-saturday","tag-scene","tag-son","tag-suspicion","tag-west-wardlow-blvd","tag-wrigley-heights-neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210860","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=210860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}