{"id":215762,"date":"2026-03-12T01:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T01:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/215762\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T01:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T01:42:08","slug":"long-beach-man-who-allegedly-ran-over-his-89-year-old-father-charged-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/215762\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach man who allegedly ran over his 89-year-old father charged with murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Long Beach man who police say intentionally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/man-runs-over-kills-elderly-father-vehicle-long-beach-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ran over his 89-year-old father<\/a> with a car over the weekend has been charged with murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It happened a little before 2 p.m. on Saturday, Long Beach police said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longbeach.gov\/police\/press-releases\/homicide--600-block-of-west-wardlow-avenue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">statement<\/a> at the time. It was then that officers were dispatched to the 600 block of Wardlow Road that day after learning of a family disturbance involving a father and son.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When they arrived, they found 89-year-old William Porter pinned underneath a car in front of a home in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; the release said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, he was pronounced dead at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrested his 50-year-old son, Robert Daniel Porter, without further incident and he was booked for murder. In their initial release, they said that their investigation revealed he &#8220;intentionally struck the elderly man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Robert Daniel Porter was ordered to remain behind bars in lieu of more than $2.1 million bail while awaiting arraignment in April, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A criminal complaint includes allegations that he personally used a deadly weapon and that he has a prior strike, the District Attorney&#8217;s Office said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Long Beach man who police say intentionally ran over his 89-year-old father with a car over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-215762","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\/215762","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=215762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}