{"id":167114,"date":"2026-04-16T01:47:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167114\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T01:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:47:24","slug":"investigation-into-hit-and-run-that-killed-2-year-old-in-erie-needs-publics-help-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167114\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation into hit-and-run that killed 2-year-old in Erie needs public\u2019s help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erie police are asking for help to identify the driver of one of the vehicles that were seen at the scene of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=2165822&amp;action=edit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hit-and-run crash that killed a 2-year-old<\/a> in southeast Erie in February.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 4:40 p.m. Feb. 15 east of Mountain View Boulevard and north of Village Vista Drive, according to an Erie Police Department social media post. Dispatch received the initial call from a motorist who stopped after they saw the toddler lying in the road, according to Erie police spokesperson Amber Luttrell. The driver of the vehicle that struck the toddler had fled the scene, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Police have already identified a driver of interest and their vehicle, but crime lab testing results are expected to take several more weeks to complete, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1CxPzxgPKM\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wednesday Erie Police post on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, police are asking the public to help identify the driver of a white Cadillac Escalade who was driving in the area of the crash. The request for help comes while the department is trying to account for every vehicle that was in the area when the toddler was killed, according to the post.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police were unable to enhance the images of the vehicle enough to better identify it on their own, the post reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognize the community\u2019s continued concern and desire for answers,\u201d the post reads. \u201cWhile some aspects of the case cannot yet be shared, we remain committed to a thorough and careful investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who was in the area when the crash happened, or who has information about it, is asked to call Detective Sergeant Burch at 303-926-2825. Anyone who was in the area of the car wash near Village Vista Drive and Colorado 7 on February 15, around 4:30 p.m.c, is also asked to contact Erie police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie police are asking for help to identify the driver of one of the vehicles that were seen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1675,1676,7250,202,136,138,137,1677,241,182,139,1704,1680],"class_list":{"0":"post-167114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-boulder-county","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-news","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-erie","13":"tag-erie-headlines","14":"tag-erie-news","15":"tag-front-range","16":"tag-latest-headlines","17":"tag-local-news","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-traffic","20":"tag-weld-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}