The search continues for a hit-and-run driver who struck and killed a nursing student while doing donuts during a street takeover in Hyde Park on Christmas night.
Authorities will hold a press conference at 10 a.m. Wednesday to give the latest update on the investigation into 24-year-old Elyzza Guajaca's death.
According to authorities, Guajaca was struck Sunday night by a black Chevrolet Camaro while standing with a group of people at the northeast corner of Crenshaw Boulevard and Florence Avenue. She died at a local hospital. Up to seven more victims were identified on videos obtained by police in recent days and authorities are urging the victims - at least three of whom appeared to be critically injured - to come forward.
A $50,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the hit-and-run driver. "My sister was an aunty to my beautiful girls who loved her so much," her brother Louie Guajaca wrote on a . "She was a beautiful sister who loved big. She was a daughter who always wanted to be with around and have family time. She was the rock to our family."The victim, identified by family as 24-year-old Elyzza Guajaca, was standing in the area when she was struck and killed by a car doing donuts in the middle of the intersection, police said..
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