{"id":410687,"date":"2026-07-24T11:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410687\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:56:18","slug":"woman-accused-of-deadly-central-fresno-hit-and-run-pleads-not-guilty-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410687\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman accused of deadly central Fresno hit-and-run pleads not guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An emotional morning in a Fresno County courtroom as the family of Marvin Johnson Jr. came face-to-face with the woman accused of killing him in a hit-and-run crash earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Thursday, 31-year-old Jamie McKenzie pleaded not guilty to the killing of the beloved father, husband and son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Earlier this month, Marvin Johnson Jr. was returning home on his motorcycle from his Amazon job when he was struck by a silver SUV at the intersection of Fruit and Dakota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators say McKenzie fled the scene, leaving Johnson injured in the roadway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McKenzie surrendered to the police on Wednesday, and the following day, she faced Johnson&#8217;s family for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The emotion was raw for the family preparing to lay their loved one to rest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;So anybody here, in Fresno, or anywhere else that&#8217;s feeling sorry for her, please do not feel sorry for her,&#8221; Johnson&#8217;s mother Hazel Ashford said. &#8220;She just went in court and pleaded not guilty when she is guilty. Be a woman, own up to your wrongdoing and plead guilty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McKenzie is facing a vehicular manslaughter charge and is due back in court for a preliminary hearing on August 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the meantime, Johnson&#8217;s family is preparing funeral services scheduled for August 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For news updates, follow Christina Lopez on <a data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChristinaABC30\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CLopezABC30\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> and <a data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/christinalopezreports\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An emotional morning in a Fresno County courtroom as the family of Marvin Johnson Jr. came face-to-face with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,622,114,113,163836,163911,163909,163837,25792],"class_list":["post-410687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-county","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-jamie-mckenzie","tag-johnson39s-family","tag-marvin-johnson","tag-marvin-johnson-jr","tag-not-guilty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410687","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=410687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}