Police are renewing efforts to solve a 20-year-old hit-and-run that killed a nun in Northeast Philadelphia.
Police said Sister Paul Mercedes Perreca was killed in a hit-and-run on Jan. 9, 2006, at the intersection of Cottman Avenue and Hawthorne Street.
According to police, the Immaculate Heart of Mary nun was struck while walking to church shortly before 6:30 a.m. by a vehicle making a left turn on Hawthorne Street. Police said the driver briefly stopped a block away but then fled the scene. They said no attempt was made to help Perreca, who died from her injuries…