Family Of 13-Year-Old Hit-&-Run Victim Asks Public's Help Identifying Driver
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DALLAS (CBS 11) — A 13-year-old boy remained hospitalized Saturday with serious injuries. Now that boy's mother is making a plea to the hit-and-run driver responsible.
Maurice Winsley was crossing Buckner Boulevard on his way to a Race Trac gas station when that driver hit him and kept going. Employees at the Race Trac said unfortunately there are no cameras facing the road, but witnesses say they saw a red Mustang speed off.
With two broken legs, internal bleeding and more injuries to his brain and spine, Maurice Winsley is lucky to be alive. Dallas police said it was Friday around 3:45 in the afternoon when the driver of a Ford Mustang hit the boy crossing near Chenault Street. The driver failed to stop and help and kept going northbound on Buckner Boulevard.
"I got there when he was in the back of the ambulance," the boy's older brother, Keandre Brown, said.
Monica Winsley got the call from her older son and met them at the hospital.
"It broke him to see his little brother 'cause they're tight as thieves, you know, and his little brother looks up to him and wants to be just like him, so it hurt him to see that happen, to see his brother in that condition," Monica Winsley said.
She spent the night terrified about her son's condition. Now she worries what the future holds for him.
"If he will walk again or if he will have some kind of brain injury where... He's just such an outgoing little boy, I wouldn't be able to see him any other kind of way," Monica Winsley said.
Investigators say few witnesses have offered many details about the crash. That's why the victim's family hopes the driver will come forward.
"Just do the right thing. That's all we're asking, and you know, you just can't leave a child out there, any human for that matter. You just hit them and keep on going for no obvious reason," Monica Winsley said.
Monica Winsley said some witnesses have reached out to her directly with pieces of information, but investigators urge anyone who knows anything about this crash to contact police.
A GoFundMe has been set up for Maurice Winsley here.
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