The search is on for the driver who police said hit and killed an elderly man in Northwest Jacksonville.
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68-year-old Robert Lee Johnson was killed in the crash, according to his wife. It happened on West 45th street and Avenue B late Wednesday night.
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Community members were paying their respects and put up a makeshift memorial for him. Police said he was hit and killed by a red dodge charger; the car’s driver didn’t stop to help.
“It makes me feel terrible,” his wife Brenda Johnson said. “That’s a coward, a cowardly act for a human being to hit another human being and run and leave him like a dog.”
His wife Brenda Johnson told Action News Jax they were married for 45 years, and she found out what happened early Wednesday morning.
“I couldn’t do nothing but sit down, I couldn’t believe it,” she said in tears.
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