{"id":358872,"date":"2026-06-13T04:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/358872\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T04:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:21:10","slug":"arrest-made-in-sacramento-hit-and-run-that-killed-9-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/358872\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest made in Sacramento hit-and-run that killed 9-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A driver suspected in a hit-and-run crash Thursday that killed a 9-year-old girl and injured her father in Sacramento\u2019s South Oak Park neighborhood<\/a> has been arrested, police said Friday evening.<\/p>\n

Miracle Merritt, 30, of Sacramento, was arrested on suspicion of felony hit-and-run and misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, the Sacramento Police Department said Friday evening<\/a> in a social media post.<\/p>\n

The deadly crash took place just before 8 p.m. Thursday and involved a vehicle that collided with a \u201cmini-motorcycle\u201d near 39th Street and 19th Avenue before fleeing the scene. Responding officers located a man and a 9-year-old girl who had been on the minibike, both of whom were taken to a hospital. The girl died about an hour later at the hospital, and the man is expected to survive, police said.<\/p>\n

The Police Department in Friday\u2019s post said the arrest by its Major Collisions Unit followed an investigation by responding officers, detectives and crime scene investigators that involved a four-hour neighborhood canvass.<\/p>\n

The identity of the 9-year-old had not been released by the Sacramento County Coroner\u2019s Office as of Friday evening, pending notification of family.<\/p>\n

Sacramento County online jail logs as of 8:30 p.m. Friday did not show Merritt as booked.<\/p>\n

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Michael McGough is a sports and local editor for The Sacramento Bee. He previously covered breaking news and COVID-19 for The Bee, which he joined in 2016. He is a Sacramento native and graduate of Sacramento State.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver suspected in a hit-and-run crash Thursday that killed a 9-year-old girl and injured her father in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-358872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358872","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=358872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}