80-year-old ‘full of love’ dies in hit-and-run on way to visit relatives, WA family says

Seattle Police Department

Bari Hill will be remembered by relatives as being “full of love, laughter” and dancing “anywhere, anytime.”

The 80-year-old woman was walking to her daughter’s home for a family gathering when she was struck by a hit-and-run driver in Seattle, Ajay Jindal, Hill’s son-in-law, told KOMO.

“They did everything they could to keep her alive until we got there to say goodbye,” her nephew Aaron Wood told KING-TV.

A driver in a van struck the woman as she was walking across a crosswalk around 4:45 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 5, in Seattle, police said in a news release.

Bystanders rushed to the woman and performed CPR on her before authorities got to the scene, police said.

The driver who hit the woman was nowhere to be seen.

“My wife suspected something was wrong, something’s off, because she generally likes coming over to our place and hanging out,” Jindal told KCPQ.

Now her family is trying to help find the driver. Her son-in-law began putting up flyers to try and find the suspect, KOMO reported.

“There’s the grieving of her death, but there’s also this anger of ‘OK, who did this and how do we catch them?’” Jindal told KCPQ. “Be a decent human being and turn yourself in.”

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