Florida Highway Patrol is searching for a vehicle involved in a hit and run that killed a woman Monday night in the Pine Hills area.
- One vehicle struck woman, stayed at the scene
- Second vehicle hits woman while she was in road, drives off: Officials
- Woman's sister begs the driver of second vehicle to turn themselves in
Lisa Ortiz says her sister, 49-year-old Jeanette Hernandez, was walking to the store to buy cigarettes when she was hit on Pine Hills Road, north of Balboa Drive.
“It’s horrible, we had a rough night, we haven’t slept,” said Oritz, “It has been a tragedy.”
Ortiz says her family waited hours for her to return, but she never did.
“After an hour or two hours we started (thinking) it’s not like her, it’s pretty dark, and she wasn’t dressed to be out so many hours walking,” said Justin Ortiz, the victim’s nephew.
Finally, they got the call that Hernandez was hit while crossing Pine Hills Road. Not only that, a second vehicle then ran her over, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The first vehicle, a 2004 Buick Rainier driven by 53-year-old Ruben Rivera, stopped, but the second vehicle sped off.
“I wanted to tell them to please give yourself in and give justice because this is going to be horrible and devastating for my whole family,” said Lisa Oritz.
Lisa Oritz was on vacation visiting family at the time of the fatal accident.
"And I was just going back home tomorrow, so now I got to go (make) funeral arrangements tomorrow," she lamented with tears in her eyes.
Just last week, FHP started a campaign called Stay at the Scene because of a number of hit and run cases around this area.
If you have any information about the dark grey SUV that left the Pine Hills Road scene, call Crimeline at 1-800-423-TIPS (8477).