{"id":397041,"date":"2026-07-13T21:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/397041\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:31:07","slug":"bicyclist-killed-in-long-beach-hit-and-run-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/397041\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclist Killed in Long Beach Hit-and-Run Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bicyclist fatally injured in a hit-and-run crash in Long Beach was identified Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The rider was struck at about 2:35 a.m. Monday near Cowles Street and Santa Fe Avenue, where officers responded and found a man lying on the road, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Gerardo Mejia, 51, suffered multiple blunt force injuries and was pronounced dead on the sidewalk, according to the Los Angeles County medical examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Mejia was riding west on Cowles Street when he was struck by an unknown vehicle that turned east onto Cowles from South Santa Fe Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The driver fled the scene without offering to render any assistance to the victim, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information was urged to contact the LBPD Collision Investigation Detail at 562-570-7355. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or visit lacrimestoppers.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bicyclist fatally injured in a hit-and-run crash in Long Beach was identified Monday. The rider was struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,12897,161,5249,169,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-397041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-bicyclist","tag-hit-and-run","tag-identified","tag-killed","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\/397041","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=397041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}