{"id":369799,"date":"2026-08-12T23:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369799\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T23:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:00:09","slug":"man-arrested-in-fort-pierce-hit-and-run-that-seriously-injured-7-year-old-boy-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369799\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in Fort Pierce hit-and-run that seriously injured 7-year-old boy: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityoffortpierce.com\/1186\/Police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Pierce Police Department<\/a> has arrested a man in connection with an<a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/2-juveniles-struck-possible-gold-mercedes-benz-hit-and-run-1-flown-to-hospital-st-mary-medical-center-non-life-threatening-injuries-florida-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Aug. 1 hit-and-run crash<\/a> that left a 7-year-old boy seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>FPPD says Demetrius Johnson was arrested at 2905 U.S. Highway 1 and faces charges of leaving the scene of a crash involving serious bodily injury and driving with a suspended license.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred at 8:55 p.m. Aug. 1 at the intersection of North 25th Street and Avenue M, according to police. Two children were crossing the roadway in a marked crosswalk when Johnson allegedly struck one of them.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/internal-report-details-why-pbso-deputy-was-reprimanded-after-ticketing-one-armed-driver-deputy-yosvani-quesada-kathleen-thomas-lake-worth-beach-lake-worth-traffic-stop-distracted-driving-cellphone-ticket-texting-while-driving-one-armed-driver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Internal report details why PBSO deputy was reprimanded after ticketing one-armed driver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video from a nearby business shows two children running across the street in the crosswalk as a vehicle makes a sharp left turn and strikes the 7-year-old boy. Johnson, 34, is then seen briefly getting out of his vehicle to check on the child before returning to the vehicle and driving away.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the 7-year-old boy has been released from the hospital and is recovering. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The Fort Pierce Police Department has arrested a man in connection with an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-369799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369799","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=369799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}