{"id":102985,"date":"2025-12-28T19:11:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/102985\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T19:11:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:11:43","slug":"man-dies-in-hit-and-run-along-us-54-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/102985\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies in hit-and-run along US 54 North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8211; The El Paso Police Special Traffic Investigation unit are looking for a vehicle that hit a man who was walking on the shoulder of US 54 North near Ellerthorpe Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded just after midnight and found 36-year-old Miguel Eduardo Rodriguez on the roadway. <\/p>\n<p>He was flown to an area hospital where he later died by the El Paso Fire Department&#8217;s FireStar transport. <\/p>\n<p>STI determined Rodriguez stopped his vehicle along US 54 North near Ellerthorpe and walked towards the shoulder. A vehicle travelling on US 54 then hit Rodriguez and fled. <\/p>\n<p>Police are asking anyone with information to call the main line at 915-832-4400 or Crime Stoppers of El Paso at 915-566-8477. <\/p>\n<p>STI believes the vehicle will have front right corner damage. <\/p>\n<p>This is the city&#8217;s 61st traffic death compared to 68 for the same time period last year. <\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KVIA ABC 7 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/station\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8211; The El Paso Police Special Traffic Investigation unit are looking for a vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-102985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}