DETROIT – Police are asking for the public's help finding Jimmie Lee Jackson (above, left) and Diana Hardy (right), who are wanted as suspects in the hit-and-run incident that killed a 27-year-old Detroit woman on Tuesday.
Witnesses say Jackson was speeding without headlights on when he ran into LaDon Grice's car while she tried to get out the door. It happened just before 11 p.m. Monday in the 7700 block of Greenview on Detroit's west side.
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Below is a picture of the car Jackson was reportedly driving.
"The man was coming from this way down the street with no lights," said Adrienne Young, who called Grice her wife. "He was flying. He was at least going 80."
Grice had just one foot out of car when she was struck.
"As soon as she stepped one foot out, he swiped her out and flew her right down where the truck at," Young said.
The driver kept his foot on the gas. Minutes later, they thought he had a change of heart when he came back, but they were wrong.
"He said, 'She shouldn't have been in the (expletive) street,'" Young said. "She was never in the street. She was getting out of the car. She didn't even get her other leg out of the car."
She said the driver lives in the neighborhood. However, he hasn't been back home since.
Police say Jackson and Hardy are both at large. Police are asking for help from anyone who has seen the suspects or knows where they are. If you have any information, you're asked to call the DPD Fatal Squad at 313-396-2260 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-SPEAK-UP.
Grice leaves behind a young boy whose father was shot and killed before he was born.
"His daddy was gone before he even got here," Young said. "Now he doesn't have his momma."
Her loved ones are hoping that the driver will turn himself in.
"We need justice for this young lady and we need it today," said Carrie Young, Grice's mother-in-law. "This is wrong."
Anyone with information on this deadly hit-and-run is asked to contact Detroit police.