{"id":780961,"date":"2026-05-08T02:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/780961\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T02:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:13:12","slug":"lapd-searching-for-hit-and-run-driver-who-killed-cubs-fan-last-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/780961\/","title":{"rendered":"LAPD searching for hit-and-run driver who killed Cubs fan last month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles police are looking for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/65-year-old-killed-in-hit-and-run-crash-in-south-la\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a driver who struck and killed a Chicago Cubs fan<\/a> in town for a game last month. <\/p>\n<p>Police said 65-year-old Jose Melesio of Chicago was visiting for the Cubs-Dodgers series on April 27, when he was struck on the northbound side of Figueroa Street near 75th Street in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Melesio died on the scene. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was full of life, such a great guy to be around. He has a lot of friends and family members in Chicago that are just heartbroken,&#8221; said Melesio&#8217;s cousin, Oscar Flores. &#8220;He was just here for a Dodger game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference on Thursday, officials said the suspect was driving fast, struck Melesio, and fled without stopping and rendering aid. <\/p>\n<p>LAPD urged anyone with information on the case to contact Officer Hurd of the South Traffic Division Detectives at (213) 321-9681 or 1 (877) 527-3247.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone wishing to remain anonymous can contact the LA Crime Stoppers at 1(800) 222-8477 or through their website:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">lacrimestoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The city of LA is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for any information leading to the offender&#8217;s identification, arrest and conviction or resolution through civil compromise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles police are looking for a driver who struck and killed a Chicago Cubs fan in town&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":780962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,1271,5417,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-780961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-hit-and-run","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780961","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=780961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}