{"id":216320,"date":"2026-03-23T08:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/216320\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:28:18","slug":"man-38-identified-as-person-who-died-following-a-hit-and-run-in-northeast-dallas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/216320\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 38, identified as person who died following a hit-and-run in northeast Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 38-year-old man was identified as the person who died last week when he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2026\/03\/18\/police-arrest-driver-accused-of-fatally-hitting-a-man-in-northeast-dallas-then-leaving\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:hit by a vehicle;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;hit by a vehicle&quot;}\" class=\"link \">hit by a vehicle<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/northeast-dallas\/page\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:northeast Dallas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;northeast Dallas&quot;}\" class=\"link \">northeast Dallas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Michael Damian Herrera died on March 17 at 9:17 p.m., according to the Dallas County medical examiner&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers found Herrera injured around 9:07 p.m. while responding to a major accident in the 6300 block of East Northwest Highway, according to a previous statement from Dallas police.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police determined Herrera has been struck by a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers found the vehicle that hit Herrera in a nearby parking lot, according to the statement. The driver of the vehicle was also found and taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the driver&#8217;s name will be released when they are officially booked into jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No further information on the accident was immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 38-year-old man was identified as the person who died last week when he was hit by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,401,84432,28468,84015],"class_list":["post-216320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police","tag-east-northwest-highway","tag-major-accident","tag-police-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216320","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=216320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}