{"id":77114,"date":"2026-01-03T18:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77114\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T18:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:43:08","slug":"philadelphia-police-identify-vehicle-linked-to-hit-and-run-of-bob-barbaras-lounge-dj-june-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77114\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police identify vehicle linked to hit-and-run of Bob &#038; Barbara&#8217;s Lounge DJ June Rodriguez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia police have released more information on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/bicyclist-killed-hit-and-run-overbrook\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">vehicle that struck and killed a South Street bar DJ in a hit-and-run<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p>June Rodriguez, 54, was riding his bike around 3:45 a.m. on Dec. 20, 2025 when he was struck at the intersection of 56th Street and Lancaster Avenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coworkers said Rodriguez, a DJ at Bob and Barbara&#8217;s Lounge on South Street, was biking home after finishing a shift.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/01\/03\/06819882-105e-4450-8824-4f88622b8d08\/thumbnail\/620x349\/c486af98340b8b718b3f893ed524adf2\/cbsn-backup-record-clean-9am-10am-260103-frame-89251.jpg#\" alt=\"cbsn-backup-record-clean-9am-10am-260103-frame-89251.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>After reviewing surveillance video from the area, police have determined the vehicle that struck Rodriguez was a red Jeep Grand Cherokee with the Pennsylvania license plate MXB 1835. The vehicle would have major front-end damage, police say.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Philadelphia&#8217;s Liz Crawford reported last week that the stretch of Lancaster Avenue where the crash occurred is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/west-philadelphia-hit-and-run-lancaster-avenue\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">one of the most unsafe streets in the city for bicyclists and pedestrians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the Jeep or the driver should contact Philadelphia police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police have released more information on the vehicle that struck and killed a South Street bar DJ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12056,28130,28,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-77114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-hit-and-run","tag-lancaster-avenue","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77114","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=77114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}