The Florida Highway Patrol reported that on Monday night at 11:30 p. m., a Seffner man was killed when he was hit by a truck.<\/p>\n
Darryl Ellis<\/strong>, 46, was trying to cross Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard near Lakewood Drive when he was hit by a pickup truck driven by Johnny Clark<\/strong>, 20.<\/p>\n Troopers said Mr. Ellis<\/strong> was not crossing in the marked crosswalk, and walked into the path of the pickup truck. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n According to his niece, Roneisha Wilson<\/strong>, Mr. Ellis<\/strong> is a native of Miami.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was disabled and hadn\u2019t worked for quite some time. He actually was a preacher for a while, and was really close to the Lord.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t know where he was coming from, or where he was going when he was hit.\u201d<\/p>\n Ms. Wilson<\/strong> said after Mr. Ellis<\/strong> graduated from high school, he moved up to West Palm Beach, where he started preaching.<\/p>\n \u201cThe entire family moved there after Hurricane Andrew. We also have family in the Tampa area.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Ellis<\/strong> was the father of 8 children, and also had 4 grandchildren.<\/p>\n Funeral services were incomplete at press time. Brown\u2019s Funeral Home of Lantana, Florida is in charge of handling arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Florida Highway Patrol reported that on Monday night at 11:30 p. m., a Seffner man was killed when he was hit by a truck. Darryl Ellis, 46, was trying to cross Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard near Lakewood Drive when he was hit by a pickup truck driven by Johnny Clark, 20. Troopers said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}