Police Release New Video In Fatal Kensington Hit-and-Run
By Jan Carabeo
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Philadelphia Police released new surveillance video in connection with a deadly hit-and-run in Kensington.
The video shows a white car police believe struck a mother and her son in front of their home. The little boy died early Thursday morning after he was taken off life support.
Police, along with this victim's family, are pleading for the public's help as investigators released the new video showing the suspect's vehicle and giving a better description of the car.
The vehicle is a white, 2007 Infinity Sedan with a moon roof. It now has a broken front headlight. In the video you can see the vehicle speeding down Mascher Street. The accident happened at the intersection of Mascher and Lehigh Avenue on Monday evening.
Nineteen-year-old Josephine Rivera and her two-year-old son, David, were critically injured. Josephine is now recovering after spending the last few days by her son's bedside.
Eyewitnesses who were on scene that night can't get the terrible images out of their mind. They recall pulling over their car to offer help.
"Someone gave the child to my girlfriend, and several people helped us put the mother in the car," Christopher Gonzalez tells CBS 3 Eyewitness News. "Once the child and the mother were back in the car, our mother-in-law, Valerie Nelson, she jumps into the driver side and we drove really fast to Episcopal Hospital."
There is a $20,000 reward for information in this case leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible.
"Turn yourself in," Gonzalez says. "Because if it was vice versa, if you had a child, you would want the same thing."
Police say this driver may have had another passenger in the car with him.
Anyone with information is asked to call police.
