{"id":5692,"date":"2008-07-01T12:33:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T19:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/pedestrian-dies-in-hit-and-run-accident\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T15:45:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T22:45:34","slug":"pedestrian-dies-in-hit-and-run-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/pedestrian-dies-in-hit-and-run-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies in hit-and-run accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 22-year-old Renton man was struck and killed at about 11:30 p.m. June 27 while walking in the roadway of Des Moines Memorial Drive South.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred in the 9700 block, which is the Boulevard Park neighborhood of unincorporated King County.<\/p>\n<p>The man died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Responding deputies recognized the victim from a disturbance call involving two men less than a half hour earlier at the nearby Rascal\u2019s Casino, 9635 Des Moines Memorial Drive. Working with casino security, the deputies identified the other man involved in the casino disturbance as a 29-year-old Tukwila resident.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies went to the man\u2019s address, a Tukwila trailer park, and found a 1991 Toyota Previa minivan parked outside. The vehicle had body damage consistent with striking a pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p>The deputies eventually located the driver and arrested him on charges of Vehicular Homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are still investigating the case. As of Thursday morning, they did not know why the victim was walking in the roadway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 22-year-old Renton man was struck and killed at about 11:30 p.m. June 27 while walking in the roadway of Des Moines Memorial Drive South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-5692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692"}],"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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5692"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}