Police search for hit-and-run driver who killed mother in wheelchair - 7Online WSVN-TV
(WSVN) -- Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who struck and killed a 39-year-old mother as she tried to cross the street in her wheelchair. Police identified the victim as Takesha Hayes, a mother of two. According to police and witnesses, Hayes was in her motorized wheelchair around 2:30 a. m. on Sunday and tried to cross Northwest 54th Street mid-block, near Fourth Avenue. The sound of the driver's car hitting Hayes and her wheelchair got Grey Thomas' attention. all types of car parts in the road," Thomas said. When Thomas went to attend to Hayes he said the woman was not responsive. We just look and talk to her, but she's not talking back, responding and bleeding out the mouth and not moving," he said. Only debris, broken wheelchair parts and Hayes' body were left behind. One witness said she did not know Hayes, but that did not matter because she did not believe Hayes should have died. I know she's somebody child, and she's a child of God, and she didn't deserve that," she said. Now police are looking for the driver of the car that hit her. They have retrieved surveillance footage of the accident from security footage taken for two local businesses, according to Miami Police spokesperson Kenia Fallat. "It's somewhere from a 2011 to 2014 Sport Trac Ford Explorer," she said. Source: www.wsvn.com
