{"id":101459,"date":"2026-01-15T19:29:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/101459\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:29:30","slug":"driver-charged-after-hit-and-run-that-killed-former-queens-university-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/101459\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver charged after hit-and-run that killed former Queens University runner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Charlotte police have arrested the driver accused in a deadly hit-and-run crash that left a man dead Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Channel 9 reported on the crash that happened near 36th Street and The Plaza. It happened just after 6 p.m. and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department began investigating after they found one person had been killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsoctv.com\/news\/local\/cmpd-person-fatally-hit-by-car-noda\/LY6DX7ZL3NCS3BDHUOFP5MQG5M\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt; CMPD: Person hit and killed by car in NoDa;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt; CMPD: Person hit and killed by car in NoDa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After the crash, Charlotte City Councilman J.D. Mazuera Arias <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@jd4clt\/post\/DTiXsnzjXr2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:wrote on social media that the victim was a former Queens University student named Lance Sotelo.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">wrote on social media that the victim was a former Queens University student named Lance Sotelo.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sotelo was a cross-country runner for Queens University, and<a href=\"https:\/\/queensathletics.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/lance-sotelo\/12162\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the school lists him as being from Dalton, Georgia.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> the school lists him as being from Dalton, Georgia.<\/a> Channel 9 reached out to university officials for more information about Sotelo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Thursday, Channel 9 obtained court documents that say Qlaundra Kadri Hood was arrested for felony hit-and-run causing serious injury or death, and involuntary manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/babec91e8889787f2469c4fb7bfe39ba.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">We\u2019re working on getting details about the crash. Watch Eyewitness News at 5 p.m. for the latest updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(VIDEO: Crews wrap up demolition at retired coal plant. What\u2019s next?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlotte police have arrested the driver accused in a deadly hit-and-run crash that left a man dead Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[22765,46451,46449,46452,46450,9,24,63,12774,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-101459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-channel-9","9":"tag-charlotte-police","10":"tag-charlotte-mecklenburg-police-department","11":"tag-cross-country-runner","12":"tag-lance-sotelo","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-queens-university","17":"tag-queens","18":"tag-queens-headlines","19":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}