{"id":54045,"date":"2025-11-15T04:33:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T04:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/54045\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T04:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T04:33:19","slug":"19-year-old-nursing-student-killed-by-driver-pulling-out-of-parking-space-police-say-long-beach-post-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/54045\/","title":{"rendered":"19-year-old nursing student killed by driver pulling out of parking space, police say \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 19-year-old Long Beach woman was walking through a parking lot with her mother when a driver pulling out of a parking spot ran over her, killing her, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/honoring-grace-edwards-help-her-family-heal?cdn-cache=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a fundraiser<\/a> for her family.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the crash happened on Nov. 2, around 3:55 p.m., in a lot on Bellflower Boulevard near Stearns Street.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this time, distracted driving is believed to be a contributing factor in the collision,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old, Grace Edwards, was rushed to the hospital, where she died days later.<\/p>\n<p>Haley and Scott Sousa, friends of the Edwards family, launched a fundraiser on Monday. As of Wednesday morning, over 100 people had donated, totaling more than $15,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrace was a vibrant and carefree 19-year-old girl,\u201d they wrote. \u201cShe was a loving daughter, sister, granddaughter, friend, and nursing student. She touched the lives of so many, including young families as she cared for many children at her church and in her community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sousas said that Edwards was an organ donor and that her heart was donated to an 8-year-old child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are comforted by the fact that her legacy is going to live on and bring life to others,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver, a 39-year-old in a 2015 Lexus IS250, remained on scene and cooperated with the investigation. They asked anyone with further information to contact detectives at 562-570-7110<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old Long Beach woman was walking through a parking lot with her mother when a driver pulling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-54045","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\/54045","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=54045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}