JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The family of a Jacksonville Air Force veteran is asking for the public's help to find the driver who hit a woman on her morning walk on Jacksonville’s Westside.
Robbie Roberts is now on life support, her sisters said. Surveillance video shows two cars hit her Tuesday morning. Video shows the first driver drive away.
“She’s not a dog in the street, she’s not trash," said Roberts's sister, Renee Williams. "She is anointed and she is loved.”
Williams and her other sister, Jackie Curry, said Roberts was on the phone with their mother when she was hit by the cars.
“She hears my sister tell her and tell the driver, ‘You hit me and you pulled off,’ as he struck her and drove off and my mom had to hear it," Williams said. "So you tell me how you can sleep at night knowing that my 74-year-old mother had to hear her daughter get hit and you drive off? And her tell her three times she’s okay and now she’s fighting for her life?”
Roberts, an Air Force veteran who ran an organization supporting girls, is now on life support at 53 years old, Williams said.
Surveillance video obtained by First Coast News shows a car hit Roberts while she’s walking across Lenox Avenue where it meets Normandy Boulevard just before 6:45 a.m. Tuesday. The video then shows that car drive away and 15 seconds later, it shows another car hit Roberts. That driver stayed at the scene.
Williams and Curry are trying to stay positive through the pain.
“I miss her Snapchat videos about her cat, Stella,” Williams said.
Williams said her sister not only served her country, but serves her community.
“You would always know that that’s your bonus auntie whenever my sister was around. Whenever she’s around, that’s it… She good, you know? She good.”
The sisters want the driver who hit Roberts to be brought to justice. Call police with any information. Police have not released a description of the suspected vehicle nor suspect.