{"id":307252,"date":"2026-10-15T14:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307252\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T14:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:40:06","slug":"police-investigate-philly-hit-and-run-that-killed-23-year-old-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307252\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate Philly hit-and-run that killed 23-year-old \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 23-year-old pedestrian was killed in an overnight hit-and-run crash in Philadelphia&#8217;s Port Richmond neighborhood, according to the Philadelphia Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a man was found lying in the road on North Delaware Avenue with severe head injuries around 12:53 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 15.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who died at the scene, was identified as Brendan Casuscelli of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary information indicates that Casuscelli was struck by a vehicle that fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, investigators observed multiple tire marks on the road near where Casuscelli was found.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made, and police have not released any information about a suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they have not identified any witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remained active as of Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information on the incident is urged to contact the Philadelphia Police Department at 215-686-TIPS (8477) or anonymously<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillypolice.com\/forms\/submit-a-tip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> online here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 23-year-old pedestrian was killed in an overnight hit-and-run crash in Philadelphia&#8217;s Port Richmond neighborhood, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-307252","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\/307252","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=307252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}