{"id":785193,"date":"2026-05-09T22:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/785193\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T22:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:16:18","slug":"suspect-sought-in-deadly-hit-and-run-of-79-year-old-woman-in-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/785193\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect sought in deadly hit-and-run of 79-year-old woman in Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Police <\/p>\n

PHOENIX<\/strong> – Phoenix Police are searching for a suspect linked to a deadly hit-and-run crash last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What we know:<\/p>\n

The crash killed a 79-year-old pedestrian, identified as Vivian Hunter, happened at around 10:20 p.m. on April 21 near 20th Avenue and Indian School Road<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Officials said the unknown suspect, who was driving a car similar to a black Jeep Grand Cherokee, fled the scene after the collision. Hunter was crossing the road when she was fatally struck.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What we don’t know:<\/p>\n

A description of the suspect and the exact model of the vehicle is not known.<\/p>\n

What you can do:<\/p>\n

Anyone who witnessed the crash or has surveillance video is asked to contact police. Anonymous tips can be made to Silent Witness at silentwitness.org<\/strong><\/a> or by calling 480-948-6377.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Officials are offering a reward of up to $2,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Map <\/a>of the area of the deadly crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Source:<\/b> Phoenix Police Department<\/p>\n

Silent Witness<\/a>Phoenix<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX – Phoenix Police are searching for a suspect linked to a deadly hit-and-run crash last month.\u00a0 What…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":785194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1588,50,1589,6166,29636,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-785193","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-maricopa-county","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-series","15":"tag-silent-witness","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116546934624822411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785193","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=785193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}