{"id":89720,"date":"2025-12-16T07:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/89720\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T07:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:44:15","slug":"police-hunt-for-driver-in-east-el-paso-hit-and-run-that-injured-a-70-year-old-man-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/89720\/","title":{"rendered":"Police hunt for driver in East El Paso hit-and-run that injured a 70-year-old man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Police are looking for the driver in connection with a hit-and-run in East El Paso that sent a 70-year-old man to the hospital with serious injuries back in November. <\/p>\n<p>According to Crime Stoppers of El Paso, on Monday, Nov. 17, at around 6:03 p.m., a 70-year-old man was hit by a silver or gray four-door car while he was crossing the street at the 1500 block of Gene Torres Drive, near the Walmart on North Zaragoza Road.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe the gray or silver car was first driving down Vista de Sol Drive when it turned left on Gene Torres Drive, going fast, and then hit the man before fleeing.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance cameras captured the incident.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH: <\/p>\n<p><p>Suspect vehicle from a hit-and-run in East El Paso, Nov. 17, 2025. Credit: Crime Stoppers of El Paso<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/crash-closes-lanes-on-alameda-and-ivey-road-in-lower-valley?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Two separate crashes cause lane closures in the Lower Valley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have information on the driver, you are urged to call Crime Stoppers of El Paso at 566-8477 or drop a tip online at <a href=\"www.CSElPaso.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.CSElPaso.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>All tips will be anonymous and could qualify for a cash reward if the information leads to an arrest. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED:<a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/pedestrian-hit-on-doniphan-drive-as-el-paso-county-sheriff-assists-anthony-police?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/pedestrian-hit-on-doniphan-drive-as-el-paso-county-sheriff-assists-anthony-police?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pedestrian critically injured after being struck by vehicle near La Tuna federal prison<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Police are looking for the driver in connection with a hit-and-run in East&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-89720","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\/89720","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=89720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}