{"id":31536,"date":"2025-11-03T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31536\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:48:09","slug":"orlando-man-arrested-for-deadly-weekend-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31536\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando man arrested for deadly weekend hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An Orlando man has been arrested for a hit-and-run incident that resulted in the death of a pedestrian in Ocoee yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash happened at the intersection of West Colonial Drive and Clarke Road. Police charge Tyree Jones with striking a pedestrian and leaving the scene without calling 9-1-1. He was soon found with his damaged vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\n<p>Tyree Jones is charged with leaving the scene of a fatal crash, a serious felony. If found guilty, he could be imprisoned for up to 30 years. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities claim that after the accident, Jones chose to have someone pick him up rather than report the crash to emergency services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Orlando man has been arrested for a hit-and-run incident that resulted in the death of a pedestrian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140,22525],"class_list":{"0":"post-31536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-orlando","9":"tag-orlando-headlines","10":"tag-orlando-news","11":"tag-tyree-jones"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31536","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=31536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}