{"id":199925,"date":"2026-03-21T02:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199925\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T02:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:02:13","slug":"florida-man-arrested-in-deadly-upper-east-side-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199925\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man arrested in deadly Upper East Side hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida man has been arrested in connection to a deadly Upper East Side hit-and-run.<\/p>\n<p>It happened just after 4:30 a.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Terill Jenkins, 44, was walking near the intersection of Lexington Avenue and East 61st Street when he was struck by a tractor-trailer.<\/p>\n<p>The driver did not stop.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins was still in the street when witness Charlie Reyes was walking by and stopped to see what he could do to help the gravely injured man.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They put him on the sidewalk,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He looked in bad shape, and I told him to be strong &#8230; &#8216;Be strong. You&#8217;re gonna be all right, buddy.&#8217; I never know he passed away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Several hours later, around 7 a.m., police said Vincent Spano, 33, showed up at a Brooklyn NYPD precinct claiming he thought he may have struck something. Officers connected Spano to the hit-and-run and arrested him.<\/p>\n<p>Spano, who is from Palm Harbor, Florida, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and failure to exercise due care.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News New York was told Jenkins was on his way to work at a Home Depot on First Avenue when he was struck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida man has been arrested in connection to a deadly Upper East Side hit-and-run. It happened just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,92423],"class_list":["post-199925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-upper-east-side"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199925","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=199925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}