{"id":112470,"date":"2026-01-09T23:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/112470\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T23:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:43:07","slug":"after-arrest-made-family-remembers-woman-killed-in-davie-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/112470\/","title":{"rendered":"After arrest made, family remembers woman killed in Davie hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DAVIE, Fla. \u2014 More than a year after Nicole Bobb was killed in a hit-and-run crash on a South Florida roadway, her family says the grief has not eased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe think about her every single day,\u201d said her mother, Elizabeth Bobb. \u201cI miss her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nicole Bobb, described by relatives as charismatic and kind, was struck by a vehicle while walking along Flamingo Road near Southwest 26th Street in Davie shortly after 6 a.m. on Oct. 4, 2024, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> Investigators said the driver fled the scene, leaving her fatally injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cShe always had a smile on her face,\u201d her mother said. \u201cShe had a heart of gold,\u201d added her brother, Shane Bobb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For nearly 15 months, Davie police searched for the person responsible. That investigation ultimately led detectives to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/08\/davie-police-arrest-suspect-in-fatal-2024-hit-and-run\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/08\/davie-police-arrest-suspect-in-fatal-2024-hit-and-run\/\">66-year-old Gregorio Puentes-Fuentes<\/a>, who appeared before a judge in connection with Bobb\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Elizabeth Bobb said what continues to haunt her family is the decision to leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cJust stay at the scene,\u201d she said. \u201cHow can you just hit someone like that? He did turn around, he went home, change cars and came back but he still of course didn\u2019t say anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She said police told the family the driver returned to the area after the crash but did not report what had happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nicole Bobb\u2019s family now holds onto what remains from the day she died &#8212; including her personal belongings and her dog, Fred, a 3-year-old Pomeranian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAll we have left of my sister is her dog Fred,\u201d Shane Bobb said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Despite the long wait for answers, the family never lost hope that an arrest would be made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cPeople would say it\u2019s been too long, I don\u2019t think they\u2019re going to find the person,\u201d Elizabeth Bobb said. \u201cI said no &#8212; I think they\u2019re going to.\u201d<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAVIE, Fla. \u2014 More than a year after Nicole Bobb was killed in a hit-and-run crash on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-112470","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\/112470","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=112470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}