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Morgan Wallace Calaway, 3, killed after he is struck by a hit-and-run driver while walking on Reed Bell Street in Palatka, Florida

Date: 
Monday, April 21, 2014
Area: 
Jacksonville, FL

Authorities are questioning several people to determine who was driving a car that struck and killed a 3-year-old San Mateo boy. Morgan Wallace Calaway died Tuesday night after he somehow escaped from a family member's home and wandered into the street. Florida Highway Patrol officials said he was struck by a white Honda. Authorities found the car a few miles away after the accident.

Charles Jones, 14, killed after he is struck by a hit-and-run driver while trying to cross U.S. 79 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas

Date: 
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Area: 
Little Rock-Pine Bluff, AR

Police in Pine Bluff say the suspected driver in a fatal hit-and-run collision that killed a teenager has been arrested. Police told reporters that 14-year-old Charles Jones was killed Friday night when he was struck while crossing U.S. 79 on the city's south side. Police say witnesses reported that the driver left the scene -- but a car matching the description of the one that struck Jones was later found and the suspected driver arrested early Saturday.

Benjamin Clem, 5, killed after he is struck by a hit-and-run driver while riding his scooter in a yard on Grandel Boulevard in Louisville, Kentucky

Date: 
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Area: 
Louisville, KY
A five-year-old boy died after Louisville Metro Police say a hit-and-run driver drove his minivan onto the sidewalk and struck the child as he rode his scooter in a yard. Authorities say the child was taken to Kosair Children's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police arrested a suspect, Edward Pearce, age 24, on Skyline Drive, near his home, a short time later. Pearce is charged with murder, DUI, fleeing and evading, possession of drug paraphernalia, and possession of a controlled substance.

 

Ethan Vasquez, 13, killed, and Sandy Vasquez critically injured after their car is struck by a hit-and-run minivan alluding police in Dallas, Texas

Date: 
Monday, April 14, 2014
Area: 
Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX
Extra psychologists are at William B Travis Academy in Uptown Dallas Wednesday where 13-year-old Ethan Vasquez attended school. Vasquez was killed Tuesday morning during a hit-and-run crash with a driver trying to elude police. The boy's mother, Sandy Vasquez, was critically injured in the crash and remains hospitalized. The school Vasquez attended is for academically gifted 4th through 8th graders who have some of the top STAAR test scores in the state.

Malik Herron, 13, killed, one other teen slightly injured, taken to hospital, after they are struck by a truck that fled the scene while walking on Vermont Street in Gary, Indiana

Date: 
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Area: 
Chicago, IL
Police in Gary, Ind., said they might have found the truck involved in a hit-and-run that killed a 13-year-old boy this weekend. Malik Herron was walking with his friend in the 4900 block of Vermont Street Saturday night, when a large, dark-colored vehicle left the road and struck both boys. Herron died, his friend was only slightly hurt.

Caylen Holloway, 6, critically injured after he is struck by a hit-and-run driver on Walford Avenue in Warrensville Heights, Ohio

Date: 
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Area: 
Cleveland-Akron, OH
Warrensville Heights Police are investigating a hit-skip crash that left a 6-year-old in critical condition at University Hospital’s Rainbow Babies. According to a police report, officers were called out 4657 Walford Avenue around 7:05 p.m. on Sunday, April 13 after a child was struck by a car. Officers arrived on scene and along with the Warrensville Heights Fire Department and located Caylen Holloway, 6, along with his parents.

Zykeith Harris, 14, killed, one other teen seriously injured after they are struck by a hit and run driver while walking on the Gordon Highway in Augusta, Georgia

Date: 
Friday, April 11, 2014
Area: 
Augusta, GA

Police are looking for a hit-and-run driver after a teenage pedestrian was killed and another injured on Gordon Highway late Saturday. Deputy Coroner Kenneth Boose pronounced Zykeith Harris, 14, of Augusta, dead early today. An autopsy will be performed in Atlanta, he said. The second teen was taken to Georgia Regents Medical Center with serious injuries. The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public’s help in identifying the vehicle that struck the two youths on the 1400 block of Gordon Highway near Dan Bowles Road after 11 p.m. Saturday.

Robert Corchado charged in hit-and-run accident that killed Lily Quintus, 4, at KinderCare Learning Center on Goldenrod Road in Orange County

Date: 
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Area: 
Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne, FL
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Corchado slammed into the rear of another car, causing it to crash into the KinderCare Learning Center on Goldenrod Road. Four-year-old Lily Quintus died in the crash, and more than a dozen others were injured.

Clifton Braunwalder, 13, killed, and mother Sondra S. Braunwalder, 47, seriously injured after they are struck by a car while changing a flat tire on westbound I-24 near Smyrna, Tennessee

Date: 
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Area: 
Nashville, TN
A child has died and his mother was hurt in a hit-and-run collision allegedly caused by a driver under the influence of alcohol or drugs in the westbound lanes of Interstate 24 in Smyrna on Thursday afternoon. The crash was reported about 1:30 p.m. at mile marker 66, near Sam Ridley Parkway. The child, his mother and his sister were outside their car changing a flat tire when they were struck. The suspected driver, identified as 33-year-old Tina L. Wilson, kept driving in a Chevrolet Cavalier after the collision, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol.

8-year-old boy seriously injured after he is struck by a hit-and-run driver while riding his bicycle on West Curtis Road in Tucson, Arizona

Date: 
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Area: 
Tucson, AZ
The Pima County Sheriff's Department is looking for a white sedan that fled an accident where an 8-year-old boy riding a bicycle was struck and injured Thursday evening. The boy, who was wearing a helmet and was in a marked crosswalk on the northwest side, was in serious but stable condition at University of Arizona Medical Center, said a Northwest Fire District spokesman. The boy's injuries are non-life threatening. "His injuries were reduced because he was wearing a helmet, and that helped save his life," the fire dept. said.