California authorities are looking for a
hit-and-run
driver after
hitting and killing three girls, two of them in wheelchairs, and leaving a fourth minor critically injured
as they walked along a desert highway in the southern part of the state.
Willow Sánchez, 11, Daytona Bronas, 12, and Sandra Mizer, 13,
all from Lucerne Valley, were run over shortly before 10:30 p.m. Saturday night while walking along Camp Rock Road.
They were struck by a white Chevrolet Silverado pickup that veered to the side of the road and struck them from behind, the California Highway Patrol said.
The incident occurred on a stretch of highway in the Mojave Desert community in San Bernardino County.
"My baby is gone. I don't have her anymore,"
Sandra Mizer's grandmother, Tammy Midkiff, lamented on KNBC-TV.
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Natalie Cole, 14, is hospitalized in critical condition.
"His leg was amputated in the accident, all his other limbs are destroyed and his liver is bleeding, his kidneys are suffering," his mother, Sherrie Orndorff, told the aforementioned station.
"You got out of your car, saw those dead and dying girls on the ground and fled," Orndoff snapped at the driver of the truck, whose identity has not been made public.
Orndoff, who was Willow's older sister, said the girls had spent the night at her house and decided to go for a walk.
The truck driver and co-driver stopped after the collision and
used a flashlight to see who they had run over before leaving without calling 911 leaving their vehicle behind,
witnesses told family members, according to KNBC-TV.
