Search continues for driver who hit, killed woman

ATLANTA — A memorial continues to grow where two drivers hit and killed a woman who was crossing the street.

One of those drivers took off. Now neighbors want justice for the victim.

It's hard for Mikeyla White to comprehend how someone could just hit her neighbor and keep going.

"She was a nice lady," White told Channel 2’s Nefertiti Jaquez about her neighbor Helen Anderson, 59.

White said everyone in the neighborhood called her Miss Helen. She was referred to as "the neighborhood grandmother" because they say she was kindhearted, sweet and caring.

"I don't understand how someone could just hit her and take off. That's just not right," White said.

Anderson was hit and killed Sunday around 7:30 p.m. as she crossed Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway at Wood Street.

Atlanta police say Anderson was pushing a shopping cart across the street when she was hit by a pickup truck.

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The impact of the crash threw her into the other lane, where a second car hit her.

Detectives said the man in the pickup told officers he saw the cart but not the victim. When he realized he hit something he stopped.

But police said the second driver gunned the gas.

Witnesses who saw the accident told police the driver who stopped was not speeding, but the man who took off certainly was.

"I advise them to turn themselves in because that was a great lady, and a lot of people looked up to that lady," White said.

Anyone with information in this case is asked call Crime Stoppers at 404-577-8477.

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