{"id":112381,"date":"2026-01-09T22:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/112381\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T22:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:29:12","slug":"arrest-made-in-fort-lauderdale-hit-and-run-crash-that-killed-70-year-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/112381\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest made in Fort Lauderdale hit-and-run crash that killed 70-year-old man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 25-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run crash in Fort Lauderdale that killed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/01\/05\/pedestrian-killed-in-fort-lauderdale-hit-and-run-crash-police-say\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:70-year-old;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">70-year-old<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Travaris McCoy, of Fort Lauderdale, was identified by Fort Lauderdale Police as the driver of a 2018 White Dodge Ram 1500 that hit Johnnie Lee Davis as he was walking in the <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/i9iQ567SHWfkgkv97\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:400 block of West Sunrise Boulevard;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">400 block of West Sunrise Boulevard<\/a> about 8 p.m. Monday and drove away from the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Davis was pronounced dead when first responders arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fort Lauderdale Police have not released details about the investigation that led to the arrest of McCoy on Thursday. Court records were not available Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McCoy remains in the Broward Main Jail. He faces charges of habitual driving while license is suspended, carrying a concealed firearm, failing to stop at the scene of an accident involving death, leaving the scene of a crash involving property damage and tampering with or fabricating evidence, jail records show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McCoy has five other felony arrests in Broward County dating back to 2019, when he was arrested for aggravated fleeing and eluding at high speed and driving with a suspended license, court records show. His license had been suspended twice by 2019, according to a probable cause affidavit in that case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In 2020, he was arrested on drug-related charges and, in one case, grand theft auto, for which he received a sentence of 36 months of state probation, court records show. He was last found to be driving with a suspended or revoked license in 2024 and was cited by Coconut Creek Police in June 2025 for unlawful speed and a learner\u2019s driver\u2019s license violation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 25-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run crash in Fort Lauderdale that killed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[6811,249,251,250,57165,46749,57166],"class_list":{"0":"post-112381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-court-records","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","11":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","12":"tag-johnnie-lee-davis","13":"tag-records-show","14":"tag-travaris-mccoy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112381","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=112381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}