BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A family is seeking justice after a 22-year-old pregnant Bakersfield woman was killed in a hit-and-run last month at 4th and V streets.
“It’s like a dream, we’re never going to be able to see her again,” said Angelica Gutierrez, the victim’s cousin.
Gutierrez said Maria Alicia Rios was the victim of the hit-and-run at 4th and V streets on Jan. 28. According to police, officers found a woman in the roadway at around 11:20 p.m. after a dark colored pick-up hit the woman and fled the scene. Gutierrez said that woman was Rios, and she was seven months pregnant and died from the collision.
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The family has been told by witnesses the driver of the vehicle was a woman. No arrests have been made.
“We just want justice,” Gutierrez said. “We just want [the driver] behind bars for what she did to my cousin. She took two lives from our family and she’s just out there.”
Gutierrez said Rios was looking forward to motherhood.