{"id":167893,"date":"2026-04-16T20:52:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167893\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T20:52:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:52:27","slug":"erie-police-search-for-colorado-driver-in-connection-with-deadly-hit-and-run-that-killed-2-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167893\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie police search for Colorado driver in connection with deadly hit-and-run that killed 2 year old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Erie are searching for the driver wanted in connection with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/colorado\/news\/police-searching-for-driver-involved-in-hit-and-run-that-killed-toddler-in-colorado\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deadly hit-and-run crash<\/a>\u00a0that killed a two-year-old child. Investigators said they identified a driver of interest and their associated vehicle early in the investigation, but want to speak to the driver of a white Cadillac Escalade.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/erie-2yo-deadly-hit-and-run-2-erie-pd.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"erie-2yo-deadly-hit-and-run-2-erie-pd.jpg \" height=\"505\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Erie Police Department<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, the crash happened around 4:40 p.m. Feb. 15 in the neighborhood area east of Mountain View Blvd and north of Village Vista Drive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/erie-2yo-deadly-hit-and-run-1-erie-pd-copy.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"erie-2yo-deadly-hit-and-run-1-erie-pd-copy.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The Erie Police Department is searching for the driver of a white Cadillac Escalade in connection with a deadly hit-and-run.<\/p>\n<p>                Erie Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said they want to account for every vehicle and individual who was in the area at the time of the crash. They have released three images that they hope may help locate the driver and the vehicle. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/erie-2yo-deadly-hit-and-run-3-erie-pd.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"erie-2yo-deadly-hit-and-run-3-erie-pd.jpg \" height=\"391\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Erie Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Additional Information from the Erie Police Department:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who was in the area at the time of the incident, or who may have any information, is asked to call Detective Sergeant Burch at 303-926-2825. Even the smallest detail may assist investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Erie are searching for the driver wanted in connection with a deadly hit-and-run crash\u00a0that killed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-167893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167893","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=167893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}