{"id":261835,"date":"2026-08-08T23:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T23:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261835\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T23:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T23:44:14","slug":"family-seeks-justice-in-deadly-philadelphia-hit-and-run-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261835\/","title":{"rendered":"Family seeks justice in deadly Philadelphia hit-and-run \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years after Rebecca Malave was struck and killed by a driver in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/tag\/philadelphia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Philadelphia<\/a>, her family gathered Saturday to remember the 37-year-old mother of two and renew their call for justice.<\/p>\n<p>Malave and her 3-year-old son, Armani, were struck on Aug. 8, 2021, along the 100 block of West Luzerne Street. The driver did not stop.<\/p>\n<p>Armani was hospitalized for months and suffered severe brain damage. Malave died a few days after the crash.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, family members returned to the area for an emotional vigil, bringing white and green balloons and a poster featuring a picture of Malave and Armani.<\/p>\n<p>The gathering honored Malave as the search continues for the person responsible for her death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are beggin and pleading it been 5 years \u2026 when are we going to be able to have that joy and feeling we just want justice ..&#8221; Malave&#8217;s sister Lorraine said.<\/p>\n<p>The family is offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the person responsible.<\/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":"Five years after Rebecca Malave was struck and killed by a driver in Philadelphia, her family gathered Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-261835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261835","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=261835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}