{"id":111927,"date":"2026-01-09T15:57:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/111927\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:57:35","slug":"arrest-made-in-connection-to-hit-and-run-that-killed-fort-lauderdale-grandfather-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/111927\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest made in connection to hit-and-run that killed Fort Lauderdale grandfather, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/fort-lauderdale-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Fort Lauderdale police<\/a> said they have arrested a man in connection to a hit-and-run that clainmed the life of a 70-year-old grandfather earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>According to information provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/fort-lauderdale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Fort Lauderdale<\/a> police, officers responded to reports that a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle in the 400 block of West Sunrise Boulevard around 8 p.m. Monday night, and that vehicle had fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cbsmiami-travaris-lamain-mccoy-1.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"cbsmiami-travaris-lamain-mccoy-1.jpg \" height=\"775\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Travaris Lamain McCoy<\/p>\n<p>                Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived at the scene, they said they found a man who had been hit by a vehicle. That man, police said, was identified as 70-year-old Johnnie Lee Davis, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/fort-lauderdale-hit-and-run-january-5-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">he was pronounced dead at the scene<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale police said a suspect was identified after an investigation, and 25-year-old Travaris Lamain McCoy was located and taken into custody on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>McCoy is being charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Fort Lauderdale Police Department remains committed to ensuring justice in this case and extends its deepest condolences to the family of (Johnnie) Lee Davis during this difficult time,&#8221; police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Family had been pleading for answers after beloved grandfather killed<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/fort-lauderdale-hit-and-run-grandfather-killed\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Grieving family members had been pleading for the public&#8217;s help<\/a> after their beloved grandfather was struck and killed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very upset, and I am heartbroken,&#8221; said Jazzlynn Simmons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Simmons said her grandfather was killed as he was crossing the street.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was trying to cross over to the store when a truck, a white pickup truck, hit him and kept going,&#8221; Simmons said.<\/p>\n<p>Davis&#8217;s granddaughter, Jakayla Simmons, said, &#8220;He was very passionate. He was caring, and he loved his family and the community. I wish you would turn yourself in. We are not looking for revenge. We are not looking to retaliate. We just want justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale police said they have arrested a man in connection to a hit-and-run that clainmed the life&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,265,249,251,250,5154,807],"class_list":{"0":"post-111927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-broward-county","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale","11":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","12":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","13":"tag-hit-and-run","14":"tag-south-florida"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}