{"id":68324,"date":"2024-02-28T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/medical-examiner-identifies-pedestrian-56-killed-on-kents-west-hill\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T00:25:00","slug":"medical-examiner-identifies-pedestrian-56-killed-on-kents-west-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/medical-examiner-identifies-pedestrian-56-killed-on-kents-west-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical examiner identifies pedestrian, 56, killed on Kent&#8217;s West Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 56-year-old Seattle man struck and killed by a vehicle on the West Hill in Kent has been identified as Bruce Jerome Brooks.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks died from multiple blunt force injuries in the Feb. 26 collision at 24426 Pacific Highway South, according to the King County Medical Examiner&rsquo;s Office, which ruled the death an accident.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks reportedly stepped into the northbound lanes of Pacific Highway South at about 8:22 p.m. Feb. 26, according to Kent Police.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders found Brooks still in the roadway. He died at the scene, according to police. Witnesses told officers that they had seen the man step into the northbound lanes.<\/p>\n<p>Initial information gathered at the scene suggests that intoxicants were not a factor, according to police. The driver of the vehicle, a 19-year-old woman, remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Brooks died from multiple blunt force injuries in collision with vehicle on Pacific Highway S. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":68325,"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\/68324"}],"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=68324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68324"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=68324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}