{"id":438316,"date":"2026-10-26T13:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/438316\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T13:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:10:14","slug":"speeding-driver-sentenced-for-killing-pedestrian-in-apopka-police-say-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/438316\/","title":{"rendered":"Speeding driver sentenced for killing pedestrian in Apopka, police say \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver charged with vehicular homicide for striking and killing a pedestrian in Apopka earlier this month has been sentenced, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1En59fpfBB\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apopka Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apopka PD said the department and Apopka Fire personnel responded to calls of a vehicle striking a pedestrian at East Main Street and Midland Avenue in the early morning on Oct. 8.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the investigation determined that Jeremy Gonzalez, 20, was traveling on Main Street at 67 mph in a 35 mph zone.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old driver drove in the center turn lane in order to pass stopped traffic when his vehicle struck a pedestrian crossing the street, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Apopka PD said the pedestrian did not survive her injuries and Gonzalez was arrested at the scene and charged.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez pleaded guilty to the charge of vehicular homicide and on Oct. 14 was sentenced, closing the investigation, the department stated.<\/p>\n<p>The severity of the sentence was not reported. The Sentinel has reached out to the department for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver charged with vehicular homicide for striking and killing a pedestrian in Apopka earlier this month has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[10514,28,114,266,115,1335,139,141,140,109],"class_list":["post-438316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-apopka","tag-florida","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438316","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=438316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}