CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Police are searching for a hit and run driver who injured a child in east Charlotte. Investigators say it happened around 3:30 Friday afternoon on Barrington Drive at Lanecrest Drive. Witnesses tell us the victim is a little girl who had just gotten off a school bus when she was hit. MEDIC took her to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. One neighbor says she saw first responders trying to resuscitate the little girl.
Neighbor Deniziah Hall says, “That actually breaks my heart ’cause she was getting, she was just coming home from school and she was on the bus with my daughter. Like that could have been anybody’s kid, including mine. So it actually breaks my heart.”
The intersection remained closed for several hours as police investigated.
