{"id":475015,"date":"2026-09-25T05:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T05:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/475015\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T05:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T05:52:08","slug":"family-mourns-teen-killed-in-los-angeles-hit-and-run-as-startling-witness-account-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/475015\/","title":{"rendered":"Family mourns teen killed in Los Angeles hit-and-run as startling witness account emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"

HYDE PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — New details are emerging in a hit-and-run<\/a> that killed a 16-year-old boy in Los Angeles, with a witness saying a man arrived at the scene after the crash to retrieve a baby from the suspects’ wrecked vehicle.<\/p>\n

The new detail emerged Wednesday as family members mourned the loss of Hernan Martinez at a growing memorial on West 60th Street in Hyde Park. Candles and flowers surrounded a photo of the teenager at the spot where he was struck and killed.<\/p>\n

Martinez had accompanied his mother and younger sister Tuesday night to pick up medication. Surveillance video captured a sedan running a stop sign, later striking the siblings.<\/p>\n

Neighbor Jerome Alexander said he heard the collision and rushed outside.<\/p>\n

“We heard a loud bang. Honestly, it was so loud it sounded like someone hit a building or a car,” Alexander said.<\/p>\n

When he reached the scene, Alexander said he found Martinez’s mother and sister on the ground near his vehicle.<\/p>\n

“The daughter was partially under our car. At first, she wasn’t conscious and then her mom started talking to her and her eyes popped open,” he said.<\/p>\n

Alexander said Martinez was several yards away and was on top of the vehicle that struck him.<\/p>\n

“Me and the mom saw him roll off the car and we took off running down there. The mom tried to grab him, and I tell her, ‘No, don’t move him real fast,'” he said.<\/p>\n

Alexander said a man and woman inside the blue sedan ran from the crash scene.<\/p>\n

Moments later, Alexander said, a man came back to the heavily damaged vehicle and removed what appeared to be a baby from the back seat.<\/p>\n

“A guy came back, opened the back door, moved the airbags out the way, a lot of smoke coming out the car and he grabbed the baby out the backseat and left with the baby,” Alexander said.<\/p>\n

He said he confronted the man as he took the child.<\/p>\n

“I said stop touching the car, they just killed somebody’s kid, and he said, ‘I don’t care about that,'” Alexander said.<\/p>\n

Martinez’s 13-year-old sister, Vicky, was taken to a hospital for treatment. Family members on Wednesday said she has not yet been told her brother died.<\/p>\n

“She still doesn’t know… We told her that he’s at another hospital right now,” said Eliseo Martinez Hernandez, Martinez’s brother.<\/p>\n

Relatives gathered around the memorial Wednesday evening as the family continued to grieve the loss of the teenager while his sister recovered from her injuries.<\/p>\n

No suspects have been arrested.<\/p>\n

A group plans to protest Sunday, saying speeding and hit-and-run crashes have been a problem in the area for years. They plan to paint crosswalks at the intersection where the teenager was killed and demand action from city leaders.<\/p>\n

The Martinez Hernandez family has set up a GoFundMe<\/a> to help with medical and funeral expenses.<\/p>\n


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