{"id":427945,"date":"2026-10-14T21:15:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T21:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427945\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T21:15:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T21:15:04","slug":"woman-arrested-in-st-pete-hit-and-run-that-killed-man-on-motorized-scooter-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427945\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested in St. Pete hit-and-run that killed man on motorized scooter: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video above: See the week&#8217;s top headlines in Tampa Bay<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 The St. Petersburg Police Department arrested a woman Tuesday in a deadly hit-and-run crash from nearly two months ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the department, Jaida Thomas-McFatten, 19, was wanted in the crash that killed a 37-year-old man on Aug. 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Tampa woman, 2 others accused of stealing people&#039;s US Treasury checks, identities;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/hillsborough-county\/tampa-woman-2-others-accused-of-stealing-peoples-us-treasury-checks-identities\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Tampa woman, 2 others accused of stealing people&#8217;s US Treasury checks, identities\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the man was riding a motorized scooter across 5th Avenue North outside the crosswalk and against the walk signal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As he entered the westbound curb lane, Thomas-McFatten allegedly struck the man with her Toyota and fled from the scene, officers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was pronounced dead at the scene. His next of kin has still yet to be notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thomas-McFatten now faces a charge of leaving the scene of a crash involving death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video above: See the week&#8217;s top headlines in Tampa Bay ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 The St. Petersburg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-427945","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\/427945","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=427945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}