{"id":30655,"date":"2016-01-18T18:19:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T23:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=30655"},"modified":"2016-01-18T18:35:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T23:35:55","slug":"ole-miss-student-killed-in-hit-and-run-driver-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ole-miss-student-killed-in-hit-and-run-driver-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Ole Miss Student Killed in Hit-and-Run, Driver Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Oxford, MS (TLV) \u2013 <strong>Carli Sears<\/strong> died from injuries received when struck by a black truck on <strong>Stewart Street <\/strong>in <strong>Morgantown<\/strong>, <strong>West Virginia<\/strong> <strong>Sunday<\/strong> morning at approximately 2:30 am.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The truck fled the accident and witnesses were, at the time, unable to identify the license plates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Police have since located the vehicle as well as arrested the driver, 19 year-old <strong>Alexander Hambrick<\/strong>, though the case is still open and being actively investigated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThis tragic news will impact so many within the <strong>Ole Miss<\/strong> family. We are keeping Carli\u2019s family and friends in our thoughts and prayers and will do all we can to support them during this time of grief,\u201d said <strong>Chancellor Vitter<\/strong> in a released statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Sears was a member of <strong>AOII<\/strong>\u00a0at Ole Miss and a junior in the <strong>Hospitality Management<\/strong> program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Carli-Sears-Memorial-Page-1656773601240651\/?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">memorial page<\/a> has been set up on Facebook.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14544\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford, MS (TLV) \u2013 Carli Sears died from injuries received when struck by a black truck on Stewart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":30658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[7624,7621,7623,7479,1394,7622,7067,3],"class_list":["post-30655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-uncategorized","tag-aoii","tag-carli-sears","tag-hit-and-run","tag-local-news","tag-memorial","tag-morgantown","tag-ole-miss","tag-the-local-voice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-01-018-CarliSears.jpg?fit=600%2C338&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}