The San Antonio Police Department is asking for the public’s help identifying a sedan believed to have been involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash last week on the city’s far West Side.<\/p>\n
Investigators are searching for a red 2022-2025 Nissan\u00a0Sentra believed to be connected to the death of 40-year-old pedestrian Joseph Leon Mitchell, according to a social media post from the department. Police said the car is missing several pieces from the front left side, as well as the driver’s-side mirror.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the vehicle or its driver is asked to contact\u00a0SAPD Traffic Investigation detectives at 210-207-7623.<\/p>\n
According to a preliminary police report, a passing driver found Mitchell lying in the roadway around 5 a.m. Thursday in the 5000 block of Spurs Ranch near U.S. 90. The driver turned around to check on him and discovered he appeared to have been struck by a vehicle.<\/p>\n
Police believe the red Nissan struck Mitchell while he was walking and that the driver left the scene without stopping to render aid or call 911.<\/p>\n
Mitchell was pronounced dead at the scene. The\u00a0Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled his death an accident caused by blunt force injuries.<\/p>\n
Investigators have not said when they believe Mitchell was struck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Antonio Police Department is asking for the public’s help identifying a sedan believed to have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-379827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379827","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=379827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}