{"id":242499,"date":"2026-04-09T20:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242499\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T20:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:10:17","slug":"dallas-county-medical-examiner-identifies-pedestrian-killed-in-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242499\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas County Medical Examiner identifies pedestrian killed in hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154928\" class=\"size-full wp-image-154928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/squad-car-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-154928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Dallas Police<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian who died after being hit by a vehicle near U.S.-75 has been identified as 46-year-old Robert Franck McAuley, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>McAuley died at 2:48 a.m. on Easter Sunday. The Dallas Morning News reported the scene being in the 4100 block of North Central Expressway, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/mepi\/searchByDate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas County Medical Examiner records<\/a> have the place of death listed at U.S.-75 and Knox Street.<\/p>\n<p>The driver who hit McAuley reportedly did not stop, according to The Dallas Morning News. The medical examiner described the manner of death as an accident.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Madelyn Edwards\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775765417_113_de19317ca2dfde9f1923a5adc9302a9d640b82604d14deeec34c6ee45688a42a.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\"\/>                                                                                                                                                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>I am a North Texas native with roots in Arlington and Benbrook, and I graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2018. My previous work has centered around small towns and cities west of Fort Worth, and my byline has appeared in The Springtown Epigraph\/The Tri-County Reporter, Weatherford Democrat, NewsBreak, Fort Worth Weekly and The Shorthorn. I am happy to serve in Lakewood, which I&#8217;ve heard referred to as a small town within the big city. Feel free to email me at medwards@advocatemag.com<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                                                <a class=\"ppma-author-user_email-profile-data ppma-author-field-meta ppma-author-field-type-email\" aria-label=\"Email\" href=\"https:\/\/lakewood.advocatemag.com\/med-examiner-ids-hit-run-victim\/mailto:medwards@advocatemag.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\tShare This Story, Choose Your Platform!<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775765417_536_de19317ca2dfde9f1923a5adc9302a9d640b82604d14deeec34c6ee45688a42a.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-72 photo\" height=\"72\" width=\"72\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tI am a North Texas native with roots in Arlington and Benbrook, and I graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2018. My previous work has centered around small towns and cities west of Fort Worth, and my byline has appeared in The Springtown Epigraph\/The Tri-County Reporter, Weatherford Democrat, NewsBreak, Fort Worth Weekly and The Shorthorn. I am happy to serve in Lakewood, which I&#8217;ve heard referred to as a small town within the big city. Feel free to email me at medwards@advocatemag.com\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtesy of Dallas Police The pedestrian who died after being hit by a vehicle near U.S.-75 has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-242499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242499","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=242499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}