{"id":495208,"date":"2026-10-14T00:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495208\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T00:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:36:08","slug":"woman-arrested-after-fatal-hit-and-run-killed-78-year-old-man-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495208\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested after fatal hit-and-run killed 78-year-old man in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A woman was arrested on Friday in connection with a hit-and-run crash that<a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/elderly-man-killed-in-fresno-hit-and-run-police-search-for-driver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> killed a 78-year-old man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It happened around 8:30 p.m. on September 13th at McKinley and Normal Avenues.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/crime\/driver-killed-after-being-thrown-from-car-after-a-crash-other-driver-arrested\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Suspected DUI driver arrested after crash leaves other driver dead after being ejected<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found a pedestrian unresponsive in the roadway. <\/p>\n<p>Despite lifesaving efforts by officers, emergency medical services and fire personnel, the man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives determined the man had been pushing a cart across McKinley Avenue when he was struck by a vehicle traveling westbound.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives used an Automated License Plate Reader to identify a possible suspect vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>Officers later found the vehicle abandoned in the neighborhood northeast of the crash scene. <\/p>\n<p>The vehicle had been covered with tarps and secured with rocks taken from a neighboring residence, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the vehicle had physical evidence and a damage profile consistent with striking a pedestrian, and it was impounded as evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives positively identified 30-year-old Mariah Irion as the suspect responsible for the collision.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested Irion Friday at a residence near East Lamona Avenue and North Bond Street. <\/p>\n<p>She was booked into the Fresno County Jail on suspicion of felony hit-and-run causing death, vehicular manslaughter, and driving on a suspended driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A woman was arrested on Friday in connection with a hit-and-run crash that killed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-495208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495208","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=495208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}