{"id":254336,"date":"2026-07-29T04:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254336\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T04:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:35:11","slug":"vehicle-sought-in-deadly-southwest-philadelphia-hit-and-run-found-in-delaware-county-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254336\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle sought in deadly Southwest Philadelphia hit-and-run found in Delaware County, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vehicle sought in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/woman-killed-hit-and-run-reideshare-southwest-philadelphia\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hit-and-run<\/a> that left a woman dead in Southwest Philadelphia was located in Delaware County Tuesday night, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was located in the area of Broadway and Oak avenues in Clifton Heights, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The hit-and-run Monday morning left 29-year-old Talyia Bernice Nesmith dead. She was exiting a rideshare around 3:15 a.m. when she was struck by a car as she crossed the street, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said Nesmith was hit with such force that she hit the back window of a parked car and landed at the intersection of Elmwood Avenue and South Lloyd Street. She was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.  <\/p>\n<p>Police believe the striking vehicle is a black 2020-2023 Dodge Charger Hellcat or Scat Pack Wide Body. Investigators said the car may have damage to the passenger side and possibly to the windshield.<\/p>\n<p>Lakisha Nesmith, Talyia&#8217;s mother, is pleading for whoever is responsible to turn themselves in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just don&#8217;t understand how someone felt like it was OK to hit my child and keep going,&#8221; Lakisha Nesmith said. &#8220;She loved elderly people and kids with disabilities and that was her passion. She was full of love, and she loved you with her whole heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the hit-and-run is asked to contact the Philadelphia Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The vehicle sought in a hit-and-run that left a woman dead in Southwest Philadelphia was located in Delaware&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[212,12056,69,71,70,2653],"class_list":["post-254336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-delaware-county","tag-hit-and-run","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-southwest-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254336","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=254336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}