Parking Lot Hit-And-Run Caught On Video In The Bronx
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - The NYPD wants your help finding the person behind the wheel of an SUV that hit someone in the parking lot of a Bronx supermarket.
The victim, identified as 38-year-old Duhaine Stenneth, was standing next to his van by the driver's side door when he was struck by a red Ford F-150, police said.
The incident took place Tuesday at around 5 p.m. on East 233rd Street in the Woodlawn section of the Bronx.
Stenneth was rushed to Jacobi Hospital where he remains in serious condition. He suffered a fractured hip and fractured skull.
"He needs to be locked up. Because he drove off like it's an animal and even if it's an animal you're not supposed to drive off like that," Lorna Powell told CBS2's Sonia Rincon.
Powell had been in the van moments earlier. She and Stenneth were doing some shopping Tuesday afternoon for the Jamaican Restaurant where they work, at the supermarket where Stenneth used to work as a butcher.
She got out first, grabbed a shopping cart, saw the speeding red truck and then heard the crash.
"And I run down there and I lift up his head and put it in my lap, and he said to me that a red van hit him," she recalled.
People who work in the Baychester Shopping Plaza in Edenwald said while speeders are common, faces are familiar too. They hope the video jogs some memories.
"If anything can be taken away from this accident, it's just please go slow. This is a mall," Powell said.
Stenneth is a father of two girls. His friends say he's in intensive care and has a long recovery ahead.
Anyone with any information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish at 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). You can also submit a tip via the Crime Stoppers website or by texting a tip to 274637 (CRIMES) and then entering TIP577.
