SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) -
Police are looking for the drivers responsible for a hit and run that left a 26-year-old man dead.
It happened in the 4600 block of North Market Street in north Shreveport Wednesday night just after 9:15 p.m.
Police have not officially released the man's name, but his family tells us his name was Andrew Dangerfield.
"I'm hurt because I want to see my son for Mother's Day. He's just gone," says his mother Angela Osborne.
Dangerfield was crossing North Market Street when he was hit. He was walking home from a convenient store. Police say he was in the turn lane when a vehicle pulled into that lane and hit him. A witness tells us a second car also hit him. Police haven't confirmed that.
"The truck swerved over there and hit that man," says Eddie Lee. "That man did not deserve that."
Lee claims he saw the whole thing.
"It was a truck going past K.P. {Quick Pantry} It hit him. Then it was another car coming that way. It couldn't have had time to slow down, and it crushed his head."
Angela Osborne says she didn't know her son had died on until Thursday morning. She says she saw the story about the hit and run on the news and she became concerned because she hadn't been able to reach her son on the phone. She says she knew he crossed the street there frequently. She says she called the morgue and got the news she was dreading.
"When my daughter-in-law looked at me and dropped her head and was coming towards me, I knew then. I said 'tell me that's not my son.' And that was him."
Dangerfield's family says they want answers and they want justice.
"The fact that it was a hit and run...I want that person to be found," Osborne says. "I want them to find that person because they took away my child. And they took away a decent human being."
"No matter what it takes, I want justice for my brother's death. I don't care who they is," adds his brother Jamario Dangerfield.
Police say he was wearing dark clothes when he was hit. Also, where he was standing is technically the street.
The person, or persons, who hit him could face a hit and run charge.
The only information police have released about the vehicle is that it was maroon.
Dangerfield's family says they're begging whoever did this to do the right thing and turn themselves in.
They also say he didn't have insurance, and they'll need help burying him.
They are setting up an account in his name. We'll pass that information along as soon as we get it.
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Andrew Dangerfield, 26 (Courtesy: Dangerfield family)
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