Police Friday sought a woman with a history of reckless driving after identifying her as the suspected motorist who ditched a car and left the scene after running a stop sign at 80 mph, killing 16-year-old boy and critically injuring his 13-year-old sister in South Los Angeles.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the driver of a blue Nissan Sentra was eastbound on 60th Street in the Hyde Park neighborhood when the sedan struck the teens, who were southbound crossing 60th in the 5900 block of 10th Avenue with their mother around 9:30 p.m. Sept. 22.
The driver was identified during a news conference Thursday as Raygine Glentasia Evans, who remains at large.
The boy, identified by the Los Angeles County medical examiner as Hernan Martinez, was pronounced dead at the scene, having suffered blunt traumatic injuries.
Vicky Hernandez, his sister, suffered critical injuries and was taken to a hospital, police said.
The mother was not hit.
Police said Evans kept driving until the sedan struck a parked vehicle before she and a female passenger exited the Sentra and fled in an unknown direction.
The passenger has been identified as Joannae Shavon Rosby, according to police.
Witnesses said the body of the boy was lodged in the Sentra’s windshield until the sedan struck the parked car.
Hernan’s brother, Eliseo Martinez, told reporters his mother was able to pull Vicky away from the car. He said the girl suffered a fractured pelvis and required surgery.
“The disgusting part of this is what happens afterward,” Detective Ryan Moreno of the LAPD’s South Traffic Division said at the news conference. “Hernan ends up placed on top of the vehicle as this suspect continues at a high rate of speed and starts to kind of swerve their car back and forth, attempting to dislodge a body from the top of the car.”
The driver and passenger took some items out of the car before being picked up by someone driving a red Honda Accord, Moreno said.
According to the LAPD, Evans has been cited for reckless driving and running stop signs nine times and is wanted in connection with multiple robberies, including 10 in Los Angeles.
The city has a standing reward of $50,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction in a fatal hit-and-run.
Anyone with information that leads to an arrest and conviction in the case was urged to call South Traffic Division.