{"id":451847,"date":"2026-09-03T05:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T05:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/451847\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T05:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T05:06:22","slug":"man-charged-in-deadly-hit-and-run-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/451847\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged in deadly hit and run in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"568\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/eric-smith1.png\" class=\"wp-image-3375145 attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Eric Smith1\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>LONG BEACH, Miss. (WXXV)- Long Beach police have made an arrest in connection to a deadly hit and run this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Smith is charged with leaving the scene of an accident-causing death. The hit-and-run happened the morning of August 30.<\/p>\n<p>Smith is accused of hitting Jimmy Mero with his car, and not stopping to render aid or call for help.<\/p>\n<p>Mero later died from his injuries at an area hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Smith is currently being held at the Harrison County Jail on a $250,000 bond.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Miss. (WXXV)- Long Beach police have made an arrest in connection to a deadly hit and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-451847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","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\/451847","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=451847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}