Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who struck and killed a 74-year-old woman in Fort Lauderdale last month in an incident that was caught on camera.
The incident happened just before midnight on July 22 in the 600 block of Northwest 10th Terrace and left Fort Lauderdale resident Willie Mae Gipson dead.
Fort Lauderdale Police on Monday released surveillance footage that showed Gipson falling off a sidewalk and into the eastbound lanes of Northwest 10th Terrace.
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Two vehicles passed her before a third ran her over, the video showed. The driver didn't stop to render aid and left the scene, police said.
Gipson was to Broward Health Medical Center by Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue where she was pronounced dead.
"I hope you don’t have to go through what my family and I are going through," Gipson's son Ronnie said in a message to the driver. "Just normal decency of a human being would stop and would’ve gotten someone care that they needed, and your cowardliness — you decided you didn’t value her life or her life was worth it, instead you hit her and left her to die like a dog on the side of the road."
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Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.
