CBS2 Exclusive: Search On For Hit-And-Run Driver Who Killed Dog, Injured Woman In Brooklyn
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- A Brooklyn woman had no idea when she took her dog out for a walk last week that it would be their last stroll together.
As CBS2's Chris Wragge reported exclusively, the woman and her dog were mowed down just a block and a half from their Bedford-Stuyvesant home. The woman survived, but the dog did not – and while witnesses were able to get the license plate number, there had yet to be an arrest on Tuesday.
"He was so happy, and he was healthy, and he was 5 years old – and it's so awful that he's not here anymore," Kat Sullivan said tearfully.
Emotions were running high Tuesday for Sullivan, who herself was fortunate to be alive after getting mowed just after 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5, while walking her dog, Andy.
"He was laying on the asphalt and he was gone, I mean, and so I went over and picked him up and held him in my arms," Sullivan said.
Andy was Schipperke-Pomeranian mix that Kat had rescued as a pup. She left corporate America to start a dog walking business named Kat & Andy.
Sullivan and her dog were struck by a vehicle at the intersection of Marcus Garvey Boulevard and Hart Street. According to Sullivan, the light turned, they took three steps in the intersection, and they never saw the vehicle coming.
"She cut the corner so sharply, it was almost as if she was aiming for us," Sullivan said.
Sullivan's foot was run over by the sport-utility vehicle. She suffered road rash burns to her skin and bruises all over body.
On Tuesday, she returned to the scene of the hit and run.
"Andy was about right over here and I was over here," Sullivan said as she pointed to the crosswalk. "I had hoped that he had gotten away -- I really had hoped that he had gotten away. I mean, she ran right over him."
Sullivan knows the driver was a woman, because the driver stopped her black SUV, got out, saw what she did, and then left the scene. Eyewitnesses got the license plate, and Sullivan has been following up with police daily.
"I was always very nice, and yesterday he said, 'You'll just have to be patient and wait for someone to contact you,'" Sullivan said. "And I said, 'I'm not someone to wait; this woman killed my baby,'" she said.
The NYPD told CBS2: "This remains an active investigation. No arrests at this time."
Police got the license plate number directly from witnesses, but Sullivan has never seen it.
CBS2 asked the NYPD to share the number to help find the driver, but they refused.
CBS2 found out about the story when Sullivan reached out to CBS2's Wragge on Facebook. If you have a story you think we should cover, let us know at our Facebook page.
