Guyanese Gillian Hall died on Friday after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in Brooklyn and her daughter has appealed for the driver to surrender to the cops.
“For someone to take her so brutally, it hurts,” Neah Persaud, 28, told the New York Post of the Friday night death of her mother Gillian, 56, a nurse’s assistant from Queens. “Turn yourself in. She has a family that needs some sense of closure”, the daughter told the newspaper.
Hall was knocked down as she crossed Flatlands Avenue and Utica Avenue in Flatlands at 9:05 p.m. after visiting a recently widowed friend.
“My mother was a gentle, kind and loving woman,” Persaud told the Post. “If she had and you needed, she gave to you. To have her die on the street with nobody there … it’s unthinkable.”
Hall migrated to the United States in 2009.
Meanwhile, the New York Daily News today said that police were reviewing video from a closed-circuit camera at a Getty gas station at the intersection in hopes of tracking the car. They asked anyone with information to call the NYPD Crime Stoppers hotline at (800) 577-TIPS.
