{"id":323019,"date":"2026-08-17T10:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T10:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323019\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T10:58:08","slug":"news-12-bronx-bronx-hit-and-run-victim-found-dead-days-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323019\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Bronx Hit And Run Victim Found Dead Days Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A hit-and-run victim from The Bronx was found dead days after a crash, police say.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NYPD, 60-year-old Kitt Hamilton was hit by a pickup truck while crossing Jerome Avenue back in May.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the driver then drove off after sideswiping a parked FDNY truck.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital and later released. He was then found dead inside his home three days later.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD says the investigation remains active.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hit-and-run victim from The Bronx was found dead days after a crash, police say. According to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-323019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323019","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=323019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}