{"id":269920,"date":"2025-10-01T19:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/269920\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T19:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:16:13","slug":"police-continue-looking-for-driver-who-hit-killed-teen-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/269920\/","title":{"rendered":"Police continue looking for driver who hit, killed teen in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 Over two years ago, a 16-year-old girl was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2024\/06\/10\/phoenix-family-still-looking-driver-who-hit-killed-16-year-old-one-year-ago\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2024\/06\/10\/phoenix-family-still-looking-driver-who-hit-killed-16-year-old-one-year-ago\/\">hit and killed<\/a> by a driver in west Phoenix. Police continue looking for the person who was behind the steering wheel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Paulina Vargas-Ochoa died in June 2023 after she was struck by a vehicle late at night while crossing the road near <a href=\"https:\/\/Vargas-Ochoa\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/Vargas-Ochoa\">27th Avenue and Indian School Road<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Video from near the scene captured a black Chrysler involved in the crash leaving the area south on 27th Avenue, but police still have not been able to identify the driver. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"A memorial is set up to remember 16-year-old Paulina Ochoa who was hit and killed while...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DHZUETPLIJHINCAASPOOLRMQOU.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>A memorial is set up to remember 16-year-old Paulina Ochoa who was hit and killed while crossing the street near 27th Avenue and Indian School Road.(Arizona&#8217;s Family, Ochoa Family)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Anyone with information that could help in this investigation is asked to call Silent Witness. There is up to a $2,000 reward for a tip leading to an arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 Over two years ago, a 16-year-old girl was hit and killed by a driver in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":269921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[140335,140334,5229,5643,1587,7182,5417,140333,23850,1589,7183,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-269920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-27th-ave-and-indian-school","9":"tag-27th-ave-and-weldon","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-arizona","12":"tag-az","13":"tag-azfamily","14":"tag-hit-and-run","15":"tag-paulina-vargas-ochoa","16":"tag-pedestrian-crash","17":"tag-phoenix","18":"tag-phoenix-news","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115300518075665460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}