Lance Knudsen’s mother, Mischelle DeCora, left, and sister, Stormy Knudsen
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.
4964. Sterling, Ill. April 2. Man critically injured when struck by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
4965. Cleveland, Ohio. April 1. 18-year-old woman injured after being struck by a vehicle which fled the scene but was located shortly thereafter.
4966. Greenville, SC. April 2. Man critically injured when struck and dragged by an unidentified vehicle which fled the scene.
4967. East Hempstead Twp., Pa. April 1. 17-year-old man on bicycle injured when struck by a tractor trailer which fled the scene.
4968-69. Bloomington, Ind. April 1. Two men on a scooter injured when struck by a maroon vehicle which fled the scene.
4970. Washington, DC. March 29. Pedestrian critically injured when struck by a stolen 1998 white Ford Windstar cargo van which fled the scene.
4971. Boston, Mass. April 3. Bicyclist fatally struck by a sanitation truck which fled the scene.
4972. Hanford, Cal. April 3. Baby in stroller struck by a which vehicle fled the scene but was followed and arrested.
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“Emilio was my son. He was my boy,” said Perez. “Just the day before, on March 7th, he celebrated his 17th birthday. He had his whole life ahead of him. Emilio loved life, loved his friends, loved his community, loved his high school, his teammates, and his family.”
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LOGAN – Police tased a 24-year-old Logan man Wednesday afternoon near the Cache County Clerk’s Office. The man is believed to have been involved in a hit-and-run accident.
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Hit And Run Suspect In Critical Condition Following Foot Pursuit
Terrance Gunnells
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Gunnells is the head coach for one of the Colorado Rapids Youth Soccer Club teams. He’s a modest guy, but he received the prodigious coach of the year award for the entire state in 2013.
On March 14, he was leaving the soccer field in Denver and riding his bike home. He got to East Alameda Avenue and South Quebec Street and doesn’t remember anything more except for waking up in a hospital bed.
Denver Police say Gunnells was hit by a driver who didn’t stop. Among his injuries were fractured ribs, a concussion, scratches and a punctured organ. He spent a week in the hospital and will recover the rest of the time at home.
Gunnells says he never expected to be hit by a car because he is always cautious, but still considers himself lucky to be alive. He also says what happened to him will help him be an even better example to the kids he coaches. He can show, through his actions, that regardless of what challenges life brings, it’s important to work hard to get back up and to persevere.
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White owns the Salted Lime restaurant in downtown Stuart. The Facebook page’s administrator said she used to be the manager at the restaurant but quit in disgust the day of Harvey’s funeral because White was unremorseful and kept drinking and driving.
“That night (of the funeral), he (White) contacted me and said put some beers on ice for me, I’m going to come up there and have some cocktails … and I totally flipped out on that,” said the former manager who gave her name only as Chris out of fear of retribution. “It’s so inappropriate. The boy is being buried.”
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MINT HILL, N.C. — More than a year after a driver hit and killed a pedestrian in Mint Hill, the victim’s father is making a final plea to find a suspect.
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SIOUX CITY | Family members of a Sioux City man killed in a hit-and-run accident in 2012 say a long-awaited arrest in the case hasn’t lessened their grief.
Victoria Ernst-Moreno, 43, of Le Mars, Iowa, is accused in court documents of hitting Lance Knudsen, 22, with her black sport-utility vehicle on Sept. 22, 2012, in Sioux City. Ernst-Moreno turned herself in to authorities at the Woodbury County Jail on Tuesday and was charged with felony vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a fatal crash.
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RALEIGH — A well-timed checkpoint helped Raleigh police identify a suspect Thursday in a hit-and-run collision that killed a 64-year-old woman last month, according to police. The Raleigh Police Department has charged Ghassan Alsabbagh, 55, with felony hit-and-run, according to a department release.
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MOBILE, Alabama– A North Carolina woman was sentenced to eight years in prison on Tuesday in the 2012 hit-and-run of Pfc. Richard Bradley Powell of Mobile.
Sarah Ashley Rogers, 22, blew a .25 on an alcohol test according to the Fayetteville Observer. While driving under the influence near Fort Bragg, Rogers struck Powell as he crossed the road in his reflective physical training gear traveling approximately 75 mph.
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KINGSTON >> The 4-year-old boy who was critically injured in a late-night hit-and-run accident last week is home from the hospital, a Kingston police official said Thursday.
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“Basically, his brain went one way in his skull and back the other, and everything shifted a bit, and there was bleeding throughout all those areas,” said Jensen’s brother Sidney Barnes.
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Police Release Photos of Stolen Van Involved in D.C. Hit-and-Run; Driver Still at Large
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A man faces murder charges after allegedly stealing a truck and crashing into a vehicle with a pregnant woman inside on Thursday. Police say the woman’s unborn child has died.
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FAIRFIELD — A judge declared a mistrial Thursday in retired Vallejo police captain Tony Pearsall’s bizarre driving-under-the-influence and hit-and-run case, involving the widely prescribed sleep medication Ambien.
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Twenty-one-year-old Melissa Laribee, who lost both legs after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in Norwich in October 2012, told a Superior Court judge Friday that the crash destroyed her dreams.
Laribee rolled up to the court bench in a wheelchair to address Judge Kevin P. McMahon as Amalia Rivera, 37, who had pleaded guilty to evading responsibility, a felony, was sentenced to one year in prison.
“I was an independent 20-year-old woman who had my own apartment and future plans to become a police officer,” she said. “My dreams were destroyed that night when I became a double, above-the-knee amputee.”
Rivera was driving home from Foxwoods Resort Casino when she swerved off the right side of Hamilton Avenue and struck Laribee and her then-boyfriend, Joseph Patch, as they were retrieving items from a parked car, according to police. Patch suffered a collapsed lung.
Though Rivera admitted she had been drinking while gambling at Foxwoods, police did not arrest her for more than three hours after the incident and did not charge her with driving under the influence.
Rivera, who came to court with family members and wore a gray sweatsuit in anticipation of her imprisonment, stood with her attorney, Theodore Kowar, and declined to make a statement.
At Laribee’s request, the two women had met in prosecutor Thomas DeLillo’s office while the court case was pending.
“I wanted to have a sit-down meeting with her,” Laribee said. “I wanted to see her on my own. She was crying and said she has to live with this every day. I said, ‘How do you think I feel?'”
Caught, convicted, court appearance or car-on-car in … Tomah, Wisc.; Oklahoma City, Okla.; Forsyth, Ga.; Rockwall, Texas; West Ocean City, Md.; Tahlequah, Okla.; Macon, Mo.; Westminster, Cal.; Corpus Christi, Texas; Easthampton, Mass.; Waco, Texas; West Ashley, SC.
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.)