On May 14, Therea Perez was with her granddaughter when she was struck by a hit-and-run driver at Montrose and Kedzie in Chicago.
Authorities are looking to the public for help by releasing a surveillance video that caught the driver. They're hoping someone might recognize the driver.
Ms. Perez who was walking with her granddaughter from Our Lady of Mercy Church says that they were crossing Montrose and Kedzie. Ms. Perez said she felt that her and her granddaugher were in danger, but did not see the car coming. "All I could think of is my granddaugher is going to get hit I just pushed her forward, but he got me and it pushed me back."
"The glasses fell off my grandma's ear...They were on the street and I told them to pick it up because I couldn't," said Damary Rodriguez.
"All I rememeber seeing is white cloud. In my thoughts, in my head is "I'm dead.' I'm not going to make this. Then when I moved to the side and I saw her crawling toward me, 'grandma, grandma' she said. I said 'Im still alive,'" said Perez.
"At that point a vehicle that was turning off of Kedzie onto westbound Montrose sturck them in the crosswalk, did not stop, continued on without stopping to render aid or give information," said Elliott Musial, Chicago Police Department.
Police say the driver was driving a white SUV. Ms. Perez's family found the surveillance camera on a store located near the accident site. The owner agreed to save the video for authorities.
Ms. Perez expects that she would be incapacitated for six full weeks. Her granddaugher is there to help.
Theresa Perez worries that the driver of the vehichle could be so reckless that they would do it again. She wonders how someone can hit a child and a grandmother and then just dirve off.
