The victim was walking in a crosswalk when she was hit.<\/p>\n
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 St. Pete police are searching for the suspect vehicle in a fatal hit-and-run Saturday.<\/p>\n
It happened around 2 a.m. near the intersection of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street South and 15th Avenue South.<\/p>\n
The victim, later identified as a 47-year-old woman, was crossing the street in a marked crosswalk when a vehicle entered the intersection and struck her.<\/p>\n
The suspect vehicle, which police describe as a dark colored sedan, then reportedly fled the scene without stopping.<\/p>\n
The victim was taken to a local hospital and later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
St. Pete police are asking anyone with information to contact the department at 727-893-7780, or text \u00a0“SPPD” along with your tip to TIP411.<\/p>\n
The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The victim was walking in a crosswalk when she was hit. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 St. Pete police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-366266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366266","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=366266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}