{"id":449247,"date":"2026-08-31T21:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449247\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T21:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:56:26","slug":"long-beach-police-searching-for-suspect-after-hit-and-run-leaves-1-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449247\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach police searching for suspect after hit-and-run leaves 1 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) \u2014 Police in Long Beach are still searching for a suspect following a fatal hit-and-run on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At around 5:50 a.m., first responders were called to 1st Street west of Cleveland Avenue after 36-year-old Jimmy Alexander Mero, who was hit by a vehicle, was found lying in the roadway by a resident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mero was taken by ambulance to Gulfport Memorial Hospital, where he later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Based on surveillance video, the suspect vehicle is believed to be a truck or SUV. Police are asking residents in the area for any footage or information that could help identify the person behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Those with information are urged to contact the Long Beach Police Department at 228-865-1981 or Crime Stoppers at 877-787-5898.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammar error in this story? Report it to our team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlox.com\/page\/error-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WLOX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) \u2014 Police in Long Beach are still searching for a suspect following a fatal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[161,131,133,132,236,9550,2131,5050],"class_list":["post-449247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-hit-and-run","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-police","tag-surveillance","tag-suspect","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449247","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=449247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}