Police released surveillance images in hopes the public can help identify a hit-and-run driver who struck and injured a woman walking her dog in Redondo Beach earlier this month.
"I saw this car coming straight at me and my thoughts were like, 'Is this car going to stop?'" Lindsay Harrie, the victim, said.
Harrie was crossing the street at Slauson Lane and Grant Avenue the morning of Jan. 7 when a Nissan Maxima with tinted windows hit her and her dog, Kira, the Redondo Beach Police Department said in a bulletin released Monday.
Surveillance images show Harrie and her dog were in the crosswalk.
The impact knocked Harrie to the ground, and Kira was pinned underneath the car.
"I started screaming. I was just devastated," Harrie said.
Harrie suffered minor injuries, and Kira was killed, police said.
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Harrie said the driver slowed as if to stop twice before driving on.
"I started to stand up, and I looked, like, 'Come on — get out of the car!" Harrie said.
Harrie's husband said he cannot comprehend how the driver took off with Lindsay injured and their puppy dying in the street.
"This person completely stops, and when they took their foot off the brake, and put it back on the gas pedal, to me that's like pulling a trigger," Steven Harrie, husband of the victim, said.
The Harrie family had a message for the driver.
"I know this person is scared, but come forward!" Steve Harrie said. "I don't want to have my entire community, every cop wasting their time hunting for you — come forward!"
The dark gray, four-door Maxima was a 2004 to 2006 model with distinct black trim around the windows, instead of chrome.
Anyone with information was asked to call Redondo Beach police investigator William Turner at 310-318-0621.
