Father, 3-year-old daughter fatally injured when truck crashes into Long Beach apartment

A person leaves flowers outdoors an house constructing that was struck by a pickup truck, killing a father and daughter inside earlier than the motive force fled the scene.

(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Occasions)

A father and his 3-year-old daughter have been fatally injured Tuesday evening when a pickup truck crashed right into a Lengthy Seaside house constructing, authorities mentioned.

Lengthy Seaside police responded about 10 p.m. to studies of a car having crashed right into a constructing round Artesia Boulevard and Rose Avenue, the division mentioned in a information launch.

Officers discovered a 2014 Dodge Ram embedded in an house constructing within the 6600 block of Rose Avenue. A number of residents contained in the constructing have been injured within the crash, police mentioned.

First responders arrived and pronounced a 42-year-old man useless on the scene, police mentioned. His 3-year-old daughter was taken to a neighborhood hospital, the place she died from her accidents. The person was recognized as Jose Palacios Gonzalez by the Los Angeles County coroner’s workplace. His daughter’s identify has not been launched.

A preliminary investigation discovered the truck was rushing north on Rose Avenue when it left the highway and struck the house constructing, police mentioned.

Authorities are looking for the motive force, described as a person roughly 20 to 25 years outdated, who fled the scene on foot. Velocity is “believed to be an element within the collision,” police mentioned.

Anybody with info is requested to contact Dets. Kevin Johansen or Jeff Meyer at (562) 570-7355.