{"id":336851,"date":"2026-09-03T08:50:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336851\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T08:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:50:25","slug":"more-than-50-rally-for-mira-costa-student-as-murder-case-moves-forward-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336851\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than 50 Rally For Mira Costa Student As Murder Case Moves Forward: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors alleged during that hearing that Peterson reached speeds of more than 100 mph before the crash. Vehicle data showed his car was traveling 83 mph when it struck the vehicle carrying Savela as it turned into a Taco Bell parking lot, according to testimony previously <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/california\/manhattanbeach\/driver-reached-speeds-over-100-mph-fatal-hit-run-manhattan-beach-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Savela, a Mira Costa senior, was riding with his brother and another friend when the collision occurred shortly before 11:30 p.m. Jan. 7, 2025. He later died from his injuries. Peterson was taken into custody by Manhattan Beach police Jan. 9, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thembnews.com\/2025\/01\/13\/519665\/manhattan-beach-hit-and-run-suspect-in-custody-charged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">prosecutors filed<\/a> three felony charges against him Jan. 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prosecutors alleged during that hearing that Peterson reached speeds of more than 100 mph before the crash. Vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-336851","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\/336851","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=336851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}