OAKLAND, Calif. – A 74-year-old woman who survived a hit-and-run in West Oakland is celebrating Thanksgiving surrounded by family after being released from the hospital on Thanksgiving Eve.
Rasheedah Shakir Mwongozi said she is grateful to be alive after spending three days in the hospital, where doctors stopped bleeding in her brain following the crash.
“My main injury was on my left side — my entire shoulder, my arm,” she said.…