{"id":41190,"date":"2025-11-10T18:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/41190\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T18:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:28:10","slug":"fatal-hit-and-run-suspect-killed-woman-91-in-publix-parking-lot-st-pete-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/41190\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Hit-And-Run Suspect Killed Woman, 91, In Publix Parking Lot: St. Pete Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 An 85-year-old St. Petersburg man accused of a fatal hit-and-run crash in the parking lot of a Publix grocery store in St. Petersburg on Friday afternoon has been arrested, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>Darrell Briggs was charged with leaving the scene of a crash causing death, St. Petersburg police said in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>He hit the victim, 91-year-old Mary Broughton, in the parking lot at 200 37th Ave. N. just before 5 p.m., investigators said. <\/p>\n<p>She was brought to a local hospital, where she died of her injuries. <\/p>\n<p>Briggs left the scene and drove to his home at a nearby apartment complex, police said. <\/p>\n<p>He told police that he knew he ran \u201csomething\u201d over, but still went home without stopping, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/pinellas-county\/st-pete-man-accused-of-fatal-hit-and-run-admitted-knowing-he-ran-something-over-before-driving-home-affidavit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WFLA reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>See Also: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 An 85-year-old St. Petersburg man accused of a fatal hit-and-run crash in the parking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-41190","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\/41190","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=41190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}