Woman left to die in street identified

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Article Date: 1/15/2010 | Resource: MLG

Woman left to die in street identified

GARDEN GROVE – A woman who died in the street Wednesday afternoon after an apparent hit and run has been identified as Hwa Rhee, 78, of Garden Grove.

At 5:34 p.m. Wednesday, police and paramedics responded to a call of a person down in a westbound lane of Garden Grove Blvd., at the intersection with Sungrove St.

A Garden Grove police officer was the first to arrive on scene, and gave the woman CPR, along with an off-duty police officer who was passing by, police said.

Paramedics arrived and pronounced the woman dead.

A witness saw the woman walking on the north side of the street minutes before the collision. When he came back a few minutes later, he saw the woman lying in the street, and a silver, four-door Ford F-150 pickup truck with chrome rims, chrome bumpers, and tinted windows speeding away.

Police asked that anyone who saw the collision call Investigator Jason Perkins at 714-741-5823

For more information regarding this article please contact:

Jeffrey Marquart
(949)589-0150
jmarquart@marquartlawgroup.com