{"id":329906,"date":"2026-08-26T04:52:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329906\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T04:52:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:52:46","slug":"news-12-connecticut-brownsville-woman-killed-in-manhattan-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329906\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Connecticut | Brownsville Woman Killed In Manhattan Hit And Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A Brownsville woman was killed in a hit-and-run in Manhattan over the weekend, police say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">On Sunday, police responded to a motor vehicle collision at the intersection of Washington Place and 6th Avenue just before 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say a driver attempted to merge from the parking lane on the far left side of 6th Avenue into northbound traffic as Destiny Murrell grabbed and held onto the driver side door.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">They say as the vehicle entered the intersection at Washington Place, the 22-year-old fell from the vehicle and was run over by the left side rear wheel of the vehicle. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Murrell sustained severe trauma to her head and torso and was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Bellevue, where she later died. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the operator of the vehicle did not remain on scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brownsville woman was killed in a hit-and-run in Manhattan over the weekend, police say. On Sunday, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-329906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329906","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=329906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}