{"id":257268,"date":"2026-08-01T18:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T18:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257268\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T18:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T18:12:07","slug":"family-neighbors-remember-talyia-nesmith-woman-killed-in-southwest-philly-hit-and-run-at-community-vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257268\/","title":{"rendered":"Family, neighbors remember Talyia Nesmith, woman killed in Southwest Philly hit-and-run, at community vigil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Loved ones and community members gathered Friday evening in Southwest Philadelphia to remember Talyia Nesmith, the woman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/woman-killed-southwest-philadelphia-hit-run\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">who was killed<\/a> getting out of a rideshare car early Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A sea of blue and white balloons covered Elmwood Avenue near 73rd Street, the intersection where Nesmith, 29, lost her life Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Her younger sister Mikyia Thomas said her mother was too heartbroken to come, but thanked the crowd for showing up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had so much loyalty for everybody, no matter who. She loved the elderly, the disabled,\u201d she recalled. \u201cShe had love for everyone and for this to have happened to her in the city that she loved so much, it just doesn&#8217;t make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nesmith got out of a vehicle around 3:30 a.m. on July 27 and was attempting to cross the street when a speeding Dodge Charger Hellcat struck her, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/sw-philly-hit-run-car-found\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">located the vehicle<\/a> in Upper Darby on Wednesday and confirmed the Dodge was stolen on Monday, an hour before Nesmith was killed.<\/p>\n<p>Family members spoke about her bubbly personality and fun spirit before releasing the balloons into the sky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you walked in, she was just a joy to see, so it&#8217;s definitely a huge loss to our family,\u201d said relative Erica Butts. \u201cI&#8217;m mad that she&#8217;s not here to see her party because she always tells everybody, like, \u2018The city loves me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nesmith\u2019s cousin Jiciana Knight said she was getting ready for nursing school and spoke out to the driver, who is still at large.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou hit her, and you kept going,\u201d she said. \u201cStop. That would be so much better than hiding cars, trying to evade the police. Just give yourself up. God don&#8217;t like ugly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Loved ones and community members gathered Friday evening in Southwest Philadelphia to remember Talyia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31,12056,69,71,70,2653],"class_list":["post-257268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-crime","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\/257268","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=257268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}