An ongoing collection of unsolved hit-and-run cases, with a focus on car/pedestrian incidents, from across the country since Jan. ‘010. If you know something about any of these incidents, or one that I’ve missed, do the right thing and call the police, even anonymously. After a respite from keeping the list, it restarted in January 2019, highlighting one case a day. If there’s a case you’ve seen that deserves highlighting, drop me a line at hickey@brianphickey.com.
11896. Police are asking for the community’s help in the search for a hit-and-run driver that killed a woman as she was walking with a 2-year-old girl on Jan. 13 in northwest Houston, according to the Houston Police Department.
11897. A plea from a distraught Fitchburg father: “Come forward, just come forward and do the right thing,” said Jose Gonzales whose daughter was struck by a driver on Water Street on Monday night.
11898. “Ever since that man knocked on my door at 2:15 in the morning to tell me that she was out there in the middle of the road, to see that, it’s been rough,” Quarla Blackwell, Flowers’ godmother says.
11899. “She’s going to try to read this stuff when she’s older to figure out what happened, like, I wouldn’t want the unknown lingering over my head as I grow up why my mom’s not here,” said Katilyn’s sister Allie.
11900. “The little boy, he’s only 3 years old and he’s going through all of this,” neighbor Yessi Vasquez said.
11901. A 57-year-old man killed in an Edison Park hit-and-run has been identified as a retired Chicago police officer, according to the police union president.
11902. Los Angeles police are offering a total of $100,000 in rewards for information on three hit-and-run crashes this month in the Jefferson Park area that left two people injured and a third dead.
11903. “When we did a search of all the 2010-2017 GMC Terrains in LaPorte County, we discovered there’s about, over 800 of those just in LaPorte County. So, tracking down a specific one of those is very difficult. Given the time that’s elapsed since the accident, we’re pretty confident that vehicle has probably been repaired or destroyed,” said Jeff Loniewski, Michigan City Police Captain.
11904. “She was knocked out of her shoes, and her purse, both of those items, were several feet from where the body was,” said Inspector D.F. Pace, with Philadelphia Police Department. “She also suffered severe trauma to the head.”
11905. The Boston Police Department is seeking the public’s help in searching for a suspect who’s wanted in connection to a hit-and-run crash involving a pedestrian that happened in Dorchester on Friday, Dec. 31, at approximately 8:30 p.m.
11906. A driver struck a 50-year-old woman who had just gotten off the bus, then drove over a median with the victim still on the hood of the car before fleeing the scene and leaving her to die, police said.
More hit-and-run stories, including every volume of Hit-and-Run America (in reverse order), are accessible from this linked page. (The full Volume-by-Volume list will appear sporadically from now on.)