Thanksgiving Week turned tragic in Los Angeles when a callous hit-and-run driver ran down Lina Andrade, 62, sending her flying 70 feet in a dense residential area of Westlake, then circling back to take a look before fleeing the scene, LAPD says.
"It was a horrible thing, with this driver going back around to the scene slowly to take a look -- and witnesses realized it was the same car, they saw the shattered windshield," says Officer Jeffrey Fischer. But because eyewitnesses who tried to help were so horrified, Fischer says, none got a license plate. Police are scouring Elden Street near Olympic Boulevard for video. A city Victim Assistance program will help send Andrade's body home to Mexico. Fischer tersely explains: "He put his brakes on only after hitting her. She was in a crosswalk. He had to be going fast, right through the stop sign."
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