FHP Asks For Help In Deadly Hit & Run
MIAMI GARDENS (CBS4) -A day after a mother lost her 14-year-old son in a hit-and-run crash Saturday night, she spoke out about the tragedy.
Beverly Eugene said her son, Andre McCarthy, was leaving Walmart with his 15-year-old brother Akeem. Just as they were crossing the intersection of NW 199th Street and NW 27th Avenue at 10 p.m., a red pick up truck, possibly an Ford F-150 hit the teens and the driver sped off, FHP spokesman Lieutenant Alexander Annunziato said.
Akeem managed to survive without injuries, but he witnessed the traumatic scene of his brother dying before his eyes.
"It's undescribable. There's nothing, you know, for a mother to lose her son," said Beverly Eugene told CBS4's Tiffani Helberg. "You have a child, you expect you're gonna go before your child -- not expecting to bury your child."
Now, Beverly and Jonathan Eugene are searching for answers hoping someone who saw something will come forward. They say the red pick up truck sped out of a Wachovia parking lot and made an illegal left turn, plowing into the two teens.
"He seen when his brother got struck and after his brother got struck the car just drug him like for five yards," Jonathan said.
Rescuers airlifted Andre to the Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center, but it was too late.
"You could at least stop and see if he was OK or something. You don't just hit somebody and just drive on and act like you just ran over a bag of trash. That was my child that they ran over, that was my son," Beverly Eugene said in between tears.
A son who will be remembered for his warm smile and a brother to four siblings who are all looking for mom and dad to make sense of the tragedy.
"The thing I know for sure that Andre loves you, but now that he's gone he becomes your angel and he's gonna watch over you," Beverly Eugene said.
Anyone with information about the truck or its drivers is asked to call the FHP at (305) 475-2500 or Miami Dade Crime Stoppers at (305) 471 TIPS.
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