{"id":62069,"date":"2023-03-06T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/man-killed-in-kent-hit-and-run-identified\/"},"modified":"2023-03-06T15:37:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T23:37:37","slug":"man-killed-in-kent-hit-and-run-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/man-killed-in-kent-hit-and-run-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in Kent hit-and-run identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man killed in a hit-and-run Feb. 28 in Kent has been identified as 44-year-old Alvin G. Walker.<\/p>\n<p>Walker died from multiple blunt force injuries, according to the King County Medical Examiner&rsquo;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Walker was a pedestrian along Central Avenue North near South 228th Street when a vehicle hit him at about 9:49 p.m., according to Kent Police. A witness told officers they heard a pedestrian being struck by a vehicle, but the driver fled the scene without stopping.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the call and found two people standing in the roadway and Walker with life-threatening injuries on the ground. Walker died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>As of March 6, police were still looking for the driver.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who witnessed the hit-and-run is asked to call the Kent Police tip line at 253-856-5808 or email KPDTips@kentwa.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alvin G. Walker, 44, died after being struck by a vehicle while walking along Central Avenue North <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":62070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62069"}],"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=62069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62069"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=62069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}