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FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\nONLY ON WPBF: Fort Pierce mother demands justice after hit-and-run injures 8-year-old daughter<\/p>\n
An 8-year-old girl in Fort Pierce was seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash, and her mother is calling for accountability after police arrested the suspect, who allegedly fled the scene.<\/p>\n
FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n
An 8-year-old girl in Fort Pierce fractured her femur in a hit-and-run crash, and her mother is demanding justice after police arrested the suspect 11 days later. <\/p>\n
Police said the crash happened at the intersection of 25th Street and Avenue M when the girl and her brother were crossing the street. A Mercedes-Benz making a left turn struck the girl, and surveillance footage captured the incident. <\/p>\n
Lawrunda Robinson, the girl\u2019s mother, described the moment she learned about the crash. <\/p>\n
“My son came home and said my baby got hit. I go, ‘Boy, stop playing,’ and the lady told me, ‘No, she\u2019s hit,'” Robinson said. <\/p>\n
The surveillance video appears to show 34-year-old Demetris Johnson exiting a gold Mercedes-Benz to check on the girl before getting back into the car and driving away. <\/p>\n
“How are you gonna hit a child and get out, make sure she\u2019s not dead, and then keep going?” Robinson said. <\/p>\n
Maj. Michael Santiago of the Fort Pierce Police Department said Johnson was arrested on Wednesday and refused to speak with investigators. Officers confirmed that Johnson was driving with a suspended license.<\/p>\n
Robinson expressed her frustration over the situation. <\/p>\n
“So he was driving with a suspended license, and he hit my baby too. I ask my baby, ‘What you want to happen to him?’ She said she wants him to get jail time,” Robinson said. <\/p>\n
Johnson now faces charges of leaving the scene of a crash involving serious bodily injuries. <\/p>\n
The girl suffered a fractured femur and is currently using a wheelchair to get around. Her leg is in a cast, and her mother said the recovery process will be lengthy. <\/p>\n
“The doctor told me it would take a month before he take the cast off her leg. Then she got to go to physical therapy and learn how to walk again,” Robinson said. <\/p>\n
Police are asking anyone with additional information about the crash to contact them.<\/p>\n
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