{"id":413454,"date":"2026-09-29T04:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T04:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413454\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T04:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T04:26:11","slug":"driver-charged-in-deadly-hit-and-run-involving-siblings-riding-e-bike-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413454\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver charged in deadly hit-and-run involving siblings riding e-bike \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested in connection with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/driver-sought-hit-and-run-crash-bike-minors-hurt\/3857140\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a hit-and-run crash<\/a> that killed a 10-year-old girl who was riding an e-bike with her brother earlier this month in northwest Miami-Dade.<\/p>\n<p>Arick Metayer, 33, was identified as the driver behind the wheel and charged with leaving the scene of a deadly crash and tampering with physical evidence, the Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Payton Williams was killed in the Sept. 9 crash, while her brother, Brent, was seriously injured and hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/091126-Brent-and-Peyton-Miami-Dade-e-bike-hit-and-run.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"Brent and Peyton\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tFamily PhotosFamily Photos<\/p>\n<p>Brent and Peyton<\/p>\n<p>Officials said a driver was going north on Northwest 7th Avenue approaching Northwest 117th Street when they made a left turn and hit the children before fleeing.<\/p>\n<p>The children were found on the roadway, unresponsive. They were transported to Ryder Trauma Center, where the young girl died.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds gathered at a vigil on Sept. 14 in honor of Payton and her brother. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou hit somebody. You hit my kid, you didn\u2019t stop,&#8221; the children&#8217;s mother, Shaniq, said at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run crash that killed a 10-year-old girl who was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,373],"class_list":["post-413454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413454","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=413454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}