The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday asked for the public’s help in identifying the driver responsible for a hit-and-run crash that killed a teenager near Hawthorne over the weekend.<\/p>\n
According to the sheriff’s department, deputies responded at about 10:17 p.m. to the 4200 block of Rosecrans Avenue following reports of a vehicle striking a pedestrian.<\/p>\n
When deputies arrived, they found the 15-year-old boy lying in the street with injuries sustained in the crash. Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Investigators said the driver fled before authorities arrived.<\/p>\n
A second teenager, identified as the victim’s friend, suffered minor injuries. Authorities said the two were riding separate electric scooters when the crash occurred.<\/p>\n
The suspect vehicle is described as a newer-model silver Chevrolet.<\/p>\n
The investigation is ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Authorities urge anyone who witnessed the crash or has any video of the incident to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday asked for the public’s help in identifying the driver responsible…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2307,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-407162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-hawthorne","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407162","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=407162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}