{"id":388430,"date":"2026-07-28T00:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T00:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388430\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T00:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T00:49:13","slug":"neighbors-nervous-after-71-year-old-killed-in-west-side-hit-and-run-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388430\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbors nervous after 71-year-old killed in West Side hit-and-run crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO \u2013 A hit-and-run crash<\/a> that ended with the death of a West Side senior has left some of her neighbors feeling vulnerable.<\/p>\n

San Antonio police officers are still looking for the driver who hit Yolanda Cano, 71, leaving her to die in the street in front of her apartment complex. <\/p>\n

So far, it appears no one witnessed the crash, which happened after 8 p.m. Sunday on El Paso Street near San Jacinto Street.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel sorry for the man that his wife passed. She was a nice lady,\u201d Hortencia Martinez said Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Martinez, who lives in the same complex, said she recognized the victim as Cano, her upstairs neighbor.<\/p>\n

While she missed seeing the crash when it happened, she did notice the commotion afterward. <\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know what it was happened until I saw a lot of policemen,\u201d Martinez said. \u201cAnd she was laying there.\u201d <\/p>\n

The death has left her and others in the complex feeling a bit unsafe. The complex caters to seniors, many of whom have trouble walking.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s cars; they don\u2019t wait for people to cross over,\u201d Martinez said. \u201cAnd we are people that \u2014 we are sick.” <\/p>\n

Gloria Rupert, who used a walker to make her way down the sidewalk nearby, said she spends a lot of time indoors to avoid that kind of danger.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes, I hear these cars roaring down and I say, \u2018Wow,\u2019\u201d Rupert said. \u201cI see people crossing the street. It doesn\u2019t even seem like they\u2019re looking right or left. They just cross.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rupert said she will be especially careful now while venturing outside the apartments\u2019 gates.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, though, she is hoping police catch the driver who killed Cano and do more to make everyone else feel safer. <\/p>\n

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