{"id":198536,"date":"2026-05-21T04:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198536\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T04:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:11:09","slug":"family-seeks-justice-for-grandma-killed-in-kensington-hit-and-run-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198536\/","title":{"rendered":"Family seeks justice for grandma killed in Kensington hit-and-run \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A family is demanding justice after a 62-year-old woman was killed in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/woman-hurt-in-hit-and-run-crash-along-allegheny-ave-in-kensington-police-say\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/woman-hurt-in-hit-and-run-crash-along-allegheny-ave-in-kensington-police-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> a hit-and-run crash in Philadelphia\u2019s Kensington neighborhood<\/a> early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Jean Rodriguez was driving a Honda Accord across F Street around 5 a.m. when a white Acura RDX carrying two men sped through a red light on Allegheny Avenue and slammed into the driver\u2019s side of her car.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the Acura also struck a parked vehicle before the two men got out and ran from the scene. They were last seen running on East Hilton Street.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez was taken to a hospital, where she later died, police said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy grandmother, she was an amazing woman,\u201d Jeannie Ramos, Rodriguez\u2019s granddaughter, said.<\/p>\n<p>Ramos said she learned about the crash early Wednesday morning on her birthday, just days before the family was supposed to leave for a vacation together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy uncle texted me at 7 in the morning and he let me know she was in a bad accident,\u201d Ramos said.<\/p>\n<p>Now, instead of preparing for a trip, the family is preparing for Rodriguez\u2019s funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors said Rodriguez was known for helping others in the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a hard time for all of us,\u201d neighbor Lilly Bonilla said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe always was helping everybody. That\u2019s something that Jeannie had always in her heart, her heart was for everybody not just for her,\u201d Bonilla said.<\/p>\n<p>With no arrests made and few answers about who was responsible, Rodriguez\u2019s family said they want the suspects to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you know in your heart, I feel like you should step forward and at least let us know give us some type of justice,\u201d Ramos said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they are reviewing surveillance video and asking anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC Philadelphia. AI tools helped convert the story to a digital article, and an NBC Philadelphia journalist edited the article for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family is demanding justice after a 62-year-old woman was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Philadelphia\u2019s Kensington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8921,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-198536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-kensington","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198536","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=198536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}