Two vigils will be held this week to remember the life of a California pastor fatally hit by a car in the Broadway-Manchester area in South Los Angeles on Christmas Eve.
The foster mother of 10 was delivering food and other gifts to a women’s shelter when a driver hit her and kept going.
Now a reward for information is being offered to anyone with a lead to an arrest of the driver.
Officer Matthew Cruz from the Los Angeles Police Department reported on Saturday, Dec. 24, around 3:27 p.m., the person in a blue mid-size sedan speeding northbound on South Broadway struck and killed Trina Newman-Townsend, a 62-year-old minister walking to her car after spreading Christmas joy to women and children in crisis, according to CBS News.
One witness said Newman-Townsend had been crossing the street to drop off donations when the sedan came flying up at approximately 40 mph. The car then struck the open door, and the victim and fled northbound through a red light on South…
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