Police are still searching for a hit-and-run driver who left a woman critically injured and two young girls injured in West Philadelphia. jpayoute has the latest on the investigation.
“Her leg from here and down is off. She just lost her mother and father a year and a half ago,” Eugene Stokes said. “I mean, it’s crazy.”
Stokes says his niece was one of the three people hit as they were approaching the corner of North 50th Street and Haverford Avenue before 10 p.m. Monday.“The vehicle actually jumped the curb, hit a fire hydrant with such force it knocked this metal fire hydrant off its base,” Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said.“I heard that somebody that was in a shooting came speeding somewhere from that way,” Stokes said.
Police did not confirm the shooting, but loved ones identified Zarina Grisby as one of the victims. They say she was crossing the street with her son and two nieces — 3 years old and 13 years old. Her older sister says the children came rushing home. “They was running with blood all over her face and I caught her at the door and I said, ‘What’s wrong?’ She said, ‘Mom, we got hit by a car,'” Christina said.Philadelphia police say the hit-and-run is one of 596 so far in 2022 and 41 so far this month.Relatives say doctors were able to save the victim’s leg.
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