{"id":112087,"date":"2026-01-09T17:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/112087\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T17:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:59:08","slug":"fort-lauderdale-police-arrest-suspect-in-hit-and-run-that-left-man-70-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/112087\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale police arrest suspect in hit-and-run that left man, 70, dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0January 9, 2026 at 12:38 PM<\/p>\n<p>Fatal hit-and-run suspect faces judge <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Fort Lauderdale police have arrested the driver they say hit and killed a grandfather on West Sunrise Boulevard and then fled Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police took Travaris McCoy, 25, into custody on several charges on Thursday, including leaving the scene of a crash causing death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McCoy is accused of hitting Johnnie Lee Davis, 70, as he crossed the street near Northwest Fourth Avenue. Police said McCoy never stopped to help Davis or call police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said McCoy confessed to being the driver. In bond court on Friday morning, it was revealed that he has a criminal past. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Broward County judge set McCoy\u2019s bond at $76,000.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Christina Vazquez\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/45804c80-b6e4-45e1-95.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Christina Vazquez<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Christina returned to Local 10 in 2019 as a reporter after covering Hurricane Dorian for the station. She is an Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journalist and previously earned an Emmy Award while at WPLG for her investigative consumer protection segment &#8220;Call Christina.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0January 9, 2026 at 12:38 PM Fatal hit-and-run suspect faces judge FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Fort Lauderdale police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-112087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112087","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=112087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}