{"id":38221,"date":"2025-11-08T01:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T01:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/38221\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T01:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T01:34:08","slug":"woman-hit-by-car-in-a-publix-parking-lot-in-st-pete-sppd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/38221\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman hit by car in a Publix parking lot in St. Pete: SPPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) said it is searching for the driver who struck and killed an elderly woman walking in a Publix parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>SPPD said the woman was struck and killed by a car while walking in the parking lot at 200 37th Ave. N. on Friday shortly before 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was taken to the hospital, where she died from injuries, SPPD said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the car left the scene.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:<br \/>SPPD located the suspected car and arrested 85-year-old Darrell Elwin Briggs.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, he is being charged with leaving the scene of a crash, causing death.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Trending_Video_TampaBay28.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Florida doctor&#8217;s fight for breast cancer patients denied insurance coverage gets Hollywood spotlight<\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg plastic surgeon, Dr. Alicia Billington, was floored when she learned ABC\u2019s hit drama, &#8220;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy,&#8221; <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/news\/local-news\/i-team-investigates\/florida-doctors-fight-for-breast-cancer-patients-denied-insurance-coverage-gets-hollywood-spotlight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">addressed the issue in a recent episode.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Florida doctor&#8217;s fight for breast cancer patients denied insurance coverage gets Hollywood spotlight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) said it is searching for the driver who struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[205,596,26115,202,204,203,199,201,200,3670,208,26116,26117],"class_list":["post-38221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-abc-action-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-publix-parking-lot-death","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-wfts","tag-woman-killed","tag-woman-killed-walking-in-parking-lot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38221","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=38221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}