{"id":255663,"date":"2026-05-02T18:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255663\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T18:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:03:11","slug":"florida-man-accused-of-dui-hit-and-run-that-killed-elderly-woman-in-her-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255663\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man accused of DUI hit-and-run that killed elderly woman in her yard"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRADENTON, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Florida man faces DUI manslaughter charges after police say he struck and killed his 77-year-old neighbor in her yard on Friday and fled the scene.<\/p>\n

Officers with the Bradenton Police Department<\/a> say the crash happened just after 1 p.m. on Friday in the 5600 block of 11th Avenue West in Bradenton, where 77-year-old Vicki Noon was standing in her yard.<\/p>\n

Police say the vehicle, driven by 40-year-old Jordan Beard, veered off the roadway and struck Noon before he fled. Noon was later pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

Witnesses reported seeing a gold sedan leaving the area moments after the crash, sparking a thorough canvas of the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

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A sergeant later located the car at a home on the 7200 block of 13th Avenue West, a short distance from the scene.<\/p>\n

Police say Beard was home and cooperated with investigators. He was initially arrested on a charge of leaving the scene of a crash involving death, but those charges were later upgraded on Saturday following the DUI determination.<\/p>\n

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Court records show Beard now faces counts of DUI manslaughter, leaving the scene of a crash involving death, and tampering with evidence. Police say the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRADENTON, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Florida man faces DUI manslaughter charges after police say he struck and killed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-255663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255663","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=255663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}