UPDATE: The truck has been found. Original article located below.
INDIANAPOLIS–Police are looking for two vehicles that may have been involved in a hit-and-run that killed a woman on Indy’s northwest side Friday night.
On Saturday, IMPD said they were looking for a 2017-2018 white Ford F250/350 with an upper windshield amber light bar and camper shell/truck cap. There is damage to the headlight on the driver’s side. They aren’t sure if this was the first or second vehicle that hit the woman. They aren’t sure yet about the make and model of the second vehicle.
The accident happened Friday at around 10:30 pm on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Street near 33rd street right next to Crown Hill Cemetery. Investigators found the woman in the street. She was pronounced dead at the scene. They believe she was hit in the northbound lanes of MLK, went into the southbound lanes of MLK, and was hit again by another vehicle.
Police said neither driver stopped to help the woman. The area does not have good lighting and there was rain at the time.
“Rain was coming down approximately at that time, so that might have contributed to it. We don’t know for sure. Obviously, people need to slow down any time we have inclement weather, but especially at night because it’s a lot harder to see,” said IMPD Captain Don Weilhammer.
Weilhammer says it is also a bad sign when people don’t stay at the scene of the crash.
“Had they stayed on the scene, they could have explained what happened. More than likely, had they stopped, there could have been other people who had stopped. They could turn around and say, ‘Can you wait until the police get here so you can tell them what you saw?”, said Weilhammer.
If you have any information about this crime, you are asked to call IMPD at 317-327-6549 or leave an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-TIPS.
