The family of Lisa Marie Martinez is asking for the public\u2019s help after Dallas police said a driver struck her in Oak Cliff and fled, leaving Martinez critically injured.<\/p>\n
For 24 hours, Martinez\u2019s family has held a vigil at Methodist Dallas Medical Center. Her sister, Eve Martinez Zamago, said Martinez remains on life support despite undergoing multiple surgeries.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have so many family members that are just wondering why, wondering why. Why couldn\u2019t y\u2019all stop and render aid?” Zamago said.<\/p>\n
Dallas police said Martinez was struck just before 9 p.m. on Aug. 24 in the 1200 block of North Westmoreland Road. The driver fled the scene.<\/p>\n
Zamago said police told the family that Martinez did not have identification when she was transported to the hospital, leaving her identity unknown. Her family learned two weeks after the crash that she was at Methodist Dallas Medical Center fighting for her life.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just a lot of mixed emotions about why the police didn\u2019t go above and beyond to find who this woman was, my sister, like who was she to get any kind of help,\u201d Zamago said.<\/p>\n
Zamago believes her sister was riding a bike when she was hit. Martinez\u2019s siblings and four children, however, have few other details about what happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just want the public\u2019s help\u2026\u201d Zamago said.<\/p>\n
The family believes someone traveling along the busy Oak Cliff thoroughfare may have information that could help them find the person responsible.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey want justice for their mom. And so do I. I want justice for my sister, so yes just pray for our family that we find the people or person that did this\u2026 and get justice,\u201d Zamago said.<\/p>\n
This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC DFW. AI tools helped convert the story into a digital article, and an NBC DFW journalist edited it again before publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of Lisa Marie Martinez is asking for the public\u2019s help after Dallas police said a driver…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-431337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}