LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A 50-year-old Long Beach man was under arrest Sunday for allegedly intentionally running over and killing his 89-year-old father with a vehicle.<\/p>\n
Officers responded to the 600 block of West Wardlow Road, near Magnolia Avenue, at about 1:50 p.m. Saturday regarding a family disturbance, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
Upon arrival, they located the elderly man pinned underneath a vehicle in front of a residence.<\/p>\n
“Officers attempted to rescue the elderly man with the assistance of nearby residents, who assisted by providing a floor jack, which officers used to raise the vehicle high enough to extricate the victim until Long Beach Fire Department personnel arrived,” police said. “Once extricated, Long Beach Fire Department personnel rendered aid to the injured man. However, they determined the man deceased at the scene.”<\/p>\n
Authorities said the preliminary investigation indicates the driver of the vehicle intentionally struck the elderly man. He remained at the scene as was later taken into custody.<\/p>\n
The victim was identified as William Porter. The suspect, identified as Robert Porter, was booked on suspicion of murder, with bail set at $2 million.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the case was urged to contact LBPD Homicide Detectives Ethan Shear or Kelsey Myers at 562-570-7244. Anonymous tips may be submitted through LA Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477), or lacrimestoppers.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A 50-year-old Long Beach man was under arrest Sunday for allegedly intentionally running over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-210906","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\/210906","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=210906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}