A Long Beach man who allegedly intentionally ran over and killed his 89-year-old father with a vehicle was charged Tuesday with murder.<\/p>\n
Robert Daniel Porter, 50, was ordered to remain jailed in lieu of just over $2.1 million bail while awaiting an arraignment hearing scheduled for April 1 in a Long Beach courtroom, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
The criminal complaint includes allegations that he personally used a deadly weapon and that he has a prior strike, according to the District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
Porter has been behind bars since his arrest shortly before 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The Long Beach Police Department said officers responded at about 1:50 p.m. Saturday to the 600 block of West Wardlow Road, near Magnolia Avenue, regarding a family disturbance involving the father and son.<\/p>\n
Officers found the 89-year-old man \u2014 subsequently identified as William Porter of Long Beach \u2014 pinned underneath a vehicle in front of a residence.<\/p>\n
\u201cOfficers 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,\u201d police said. \u201cOnce extricated, Long Beach Fire Department personnel rendered aid to the injured man. However, they determined the man deceased at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police said a preliminary investigation indicated that the vehicle\u2019s driver intentionally struck the elderly man and that the victim\u2019s son remained at the scene, where he was later taken into custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Long Beach man who allegedly intentionally ran over and killed his 89-year-old father with a vehicle was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[98309,1051,10753,6314,131,133,132,1331,8711],"class_list":["post-214293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-89-year-old","tag-allegedly","tag-charged","tag-father","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-murder","tag-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214293","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=214293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}