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SPD Asking for Help Locating Hit & Run Driver who Struck a Child

Cpl. Teresa Fuller

Thursday, January 25, 2018 at 10:35 p.m.

Spokane Police are asking for your help locating the vehicle AND driver from a hit and run collision that injured a child. The crash happened on the South Hill this evening at about 7:20pm at the intersection of 29^th Ave. and Freya St. Anyone with information on this incident is asked to call Crime Check at 509-456-2233.

Tonight, January 25, 2018, at about 7:20pm, witnesses called in reporting that a vehicle had just hit a young pedestrian at the intersection of 29^th and Freya. According to those witnesses, the child, a pre-teen male, was walking a younger child across the street, in the crosswalk. The suspect vehicle ran a stop sign at the intersection, struck the older of the two children and fled the scene.

The victim sustained non-life threatening injuries and is being assessed/treated at an area hospital.

The suspect vehicle is described as a late 80’s to early 90’s, dark colored (possibly charcoal grey), four-door sedan with tinted windows and driver’s side front end damage caused by the collision. It was last seen northbound on Freya from 29^th after the crash. Anyone with information on this incident, or any homes/businesses in the area that may have had surveillance footage of it, are asked to call Crime Check at 509-456-2233.

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