{"id":481254,"date":"2026-10-01T05:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/481254\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T05:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:26:14","slug":"driver-arrested-in-hit-and-run-collision-that-killed-restaurant-worker-in-pb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/481254\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver arrested in hit-and-run collision that killed restaurant worker in PB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2013 A driver was arrested in connection with a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.10news.com\/news\/local-news\/san-diego-news\/pacific-beach-mourns-beloved-restaurant-worker-killed-in-possible-hit-and-run\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February hit-and-run crash in Pacific Beach that left a beloved restaurant worker dead<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A San Diego Police Department official told ABC 10News that Viacheslav Akimenko was identified as the driver in the Feb. 7 collision that killed 41-year-old Qwente Bryant, who was the assistant general manager at Tavern at the Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Bryant was crossing the mid-block at 1400 Garnet Avenue <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.10news.com\/news\/local-news\/police-release-image-of-suspected-car-involved-in-a-hit-and-run-killing-a-beloved-restaurant-worker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when he was struck by a white Mercedes-Benz SUV<\/a>. Bryant, who was walking home following a work shift, was rushed to the hospital but died after arrival.<\/p>\n<p>ABC 10News learned police arrested Akimenko on Tuesday by a warrant on charges including gross vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run causing death.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not release any additional details on the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2013 A driver was arrested in connection with a February hit-and-run crash in Pacific Beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[39245,71152,188698,82206,74,76,75,90023,188697],"class_list":["post-481254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-garnet-avenue","tag-pacific-beach-hit-and-run","tag-pb-hit-and-run","tag-qwente-bryant","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-tavern-at-the-beach","tag-viacheslav-akimenko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481254","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=481254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}