A South Florida family wants justice after a driver hit a 61-year-old man while he was walking and killed him in Miami over the weekend. <\/p>\n
Family members identified the man as Alfred Jerome Akins.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re hurting, it’s unbelievable that somebody could hit him and leave him in the street as he was nobody,\u201d Akins’ niece Shantal Pascal said.<\/p>\n
Family members say if you knew him, you called him Jerome or JJ Black.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe life of the party, JJ Black, he’s going to dance, make you laugh, he was truly godsend,\u201d Pascal said.<\/p>\n
Akins\u2019 family says he was leaving the laundromat Saturday and on his way to help out a family member when a driver hit him at Northwest 17th Avenue and 43rd Street in Miami and didn’t stop.<\/p>\n
Days later, his family and loved ones are still wiping away tears and hugging each other tight. His daughter Evelyn Johnson, who is nine months pregnant, is crushed.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy father won’t be here to see my baby; it’s really hurting me, and I’m trying to stay strong for me and my baby,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cBut I do want justice.”<\/p>\n
Police say they’re searching for\u00a0a possible 2023 to 2026 Blue Honda Accord. Detectives want to question the driver about the hit-and-run.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s unimaginable, the pain is unimaginable, we can’t understand how someone could keep going,\u201d Pascal said.<\/p>\n
The family says Akins was loving and would give his last. They say he was a master plumber, talented and loved music.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was caring, loving and he wouldn’t hurt anybody, so the fact that this is his fate, we’re not going to stop until this person is found,\u201d Pascal said.<\/p>\n
The family is leaning on each other and their faith and believing they will get justice.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that God will prevail, He will bring us justice, peace and hope,\u201d Pascal said.<\/p>\n
Miami Police still need the public\u2019s help in identifying the vehicle and\/or driver.<\/p>\n
Anyone who has information about this vehicle is asked to contact Detective F. Fleites or any on-duty detective of the City of Miami Police Department Traffic Homicide Unit at 305-603-6525.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Florida family wants justice after a driver hit a 61-year-old man while he was walking and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-308709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}