{"id":53958,"date":"2022-01-03T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/pedestrian-killed-in-des-moines-hit-and-run-along-pacific-highway-south\/"},"modified":"2022-01-03T16:53:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T00:53:24","slug":"pedestrian-killed-in-des-moines-hit-and-run-along-pacific-highway-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/pedestrian-killed-in-des-moines-hit-and-run-along-pacific-highway-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed in Des Moines hit and run along Pacific Highway South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A truck driver hit and killed a pedestrian early Monday morning, Jan. 3, <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/4nfaUVYMrDFbHr4c9\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\" rel=\"noopener\">near the intersection of Pacific Highway South and Kent Des Moines Road<\/a> in Des Moines.<\/p>\n<p>The driver fled the scene and is being sought for investigation of vehicular homicide, according to a Des Moines Police news release.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were dispatched at about 7:28 a.m. to a vehicle vs. pedestrian incident. Officers found a man unconscious on the roadway of northbound Pacific Highway South. Life-saving efforts were attempted, but the man died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Des Moines Police did not release an age for the man. The King County Medical Examiner&rsquo;s Office will release the name of the man after its investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told officers that the pedestrian had been attempting to cross Pacific Highway South in a non-crosswalk area when a large semi or box truck made a right turn from Kent Des Moines Road onto Pacific Highway South striking the man. The vehicle failed to stop and continued northbound on Pacific Highway South.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives from the Des Moines Police and Washington State Patrol (Kent Des Moines Road is state Highway 516) are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are asking for the public&rsquo;s help in identifying the suspect involved in this crash. If you have any information, you are asked to call the Des Moines Police Tip Line at 206-870-6871 or email phscrimetips@desmoineswa.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early Monday morning near Kent Des Moines Road; police seek truck driver for vehicular homicide <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":53959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-53958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53958"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=53958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}