{"id":783433,"date":"2026-05-09T03:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T03:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/783433\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T03:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T03:59:16","slug":"suspect-at-large-after-fatal-hit-and-run-in-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/783433\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect at large after fatal hit-and-run in Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are asking for the public\u2019s help finding a suspect in a Thursday night fatal hit-and-run in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>Valyn Benally, 36, was located with critical injuries and pronounced dead around 10 p.m. near <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/EDLxqHkrZUJ9KFVr7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Seventh and Elwood streets<\/a>, according to the Phoenix Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was not at the scene upon the police\u2019s arrival. Detectives said it was heading north and struck Benally who was crossing Seventh Street.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the collision is asked to call Phoenix PD at 602-262-6151. The public can also provide information anonymously through <a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/silent-witness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Silent Witness<\/a>\u00a0at 480-948-6377 or 480-837-8446 for Spanish speakers.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pwmoses11\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @pwmoses11<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We want to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;\">Have a story idea or tip? Pass it along to the KTAR News team <a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/arizona-news\/suspect-hit-and-run-phoenix\/5860598\/mailto:stories@ktar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" width=\"830\" height=\"100\" alt=\"newsletter sign up\" style=\"display:block;margin:0 auto;max-width:100%;height:auto;\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are asking for the public\u2019s help finding a suspect in a Thursday night fatal hit-and-run in Phoenix.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":783434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-783433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116542620897378764","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783433","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=783433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}