Elk Grove Family Calls For Driver In Hit-And-Run That Killed Father To Come Forward
ELK GROVE (CBS13) — The family of an 85-year-old man that was hit and killed in a hit-and-run last week in Elk Grove is calling for the driver to come forward.
Elk Grove police said on Thursday that a red SUV, possibly a Chevy or GMC from the late 1980s to early 2000s, hit and killed 85-year-old Edward Villasenor on Waterman Road.
Villasenor's family said he was bringing in the trash can from the street when they heard a loud noise coming from out front of their home.
Police said the SUV traveling northbound on Waterman Road veered into the other lane for an unknown reason and hit Villasenor.
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The family told CBS13 Villasenor was killed on his 49th wedding anniversary. Villasenor's wife was diagnosed with dementia in 2016 and he has acted as her caregiver ever since.
"It's the comprehension. And, you know, she still asks for him," Christina Perez said.
Debbie Colquitt, Villasenor's daughter, said it's making an unbelievable situation that much harder to bear.
"She asks for him three to four times a day and I go in my room and cry because afterward, I feel like I'm reliving it over and over and over," Debbie Colquitt said. "She cannot sleep by herself and now, I can't go in that room without crying. I can't sleep on my dad's side of the bed."
The family is now calling for the driver in question to come forward.
"How could you just hit him and not stop? You just kept going," Colquitt said. "And, I don't know. As the days go by, it just feels like this person might not ever be caught."
Police said that SUV would have moderate to major damage on the front end.
"It couldn't have been more than two minutes. I heard that big slam like that, and my heart sunk," Colquitt said. "The family's unglued now because he was like the head of the family. He was the glue."
Perez and Colquitt told CBS13 that their family is coming together to help take of their mother. Now, they have to also work together to take care of her just like their late father did.
"We're picking up the pieces that he never taught us to do. He took care of everything. And so we're at a loss," Perez said.
Colquitt told CBS13 she doesn't know if her father had a premonition that something like this would happen but, for the last few months, he had been telling her the best ways to take care of his wife and their mother.