HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Family members and police are pleading for answers after a 45-year-old bicyclist was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Hallandale Beach Friday morning.
Police said a driver struck and killed Ricardo Gray between 4 and 5 a.m. along the 500 block of South Federal Highway. No one called police until 8 a.m.
His aunt, Norma Morris, said she and other family members are devastated.
“It’s not fair, it is just not fair,” his aunt, Norma Morris, told Local 10 News.
Morris said he was headed to work at Gulfstream Park. Gray used to live with her until recently.
“I told him to go two months ago and to start his own life, because he was leaning on me, and then somebody took his life,” she said.
The impact of the crash broke his bicycle into pieces.
“If that person would have stayed on scene, they could have saved our victim’s life,” Capt. Megan Jones, a Hallandale Beach police spokesperson said.
Morris said she wants the careless driver captured.
“They should be caught and punished and then they’ll know the pain that they’re putting me and my sisters and my brothers through,” she said.
Police are asking for the public’s help finding the driver. They believe he or she was driving a black sedan with likely front-end damage to the driver or passenger’s side.
“This family is grieving, they have lost a loved one and we need justice,” Jones said. “Anybody that has any information, whether it’s big or small, please call us.”
Anyone with information is asked to call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.