A family is heartbroken and pleading for help after a 76-year-old woman was struck and killed in a hit-and-run while walking to the grocery store in Liberty City.
Koritza Ortiz was crossing the street near NW 7th Avenue and 60th Street, just west of I-95, around 8:30 Monday morning when she was hit by an unknown vehicle. The driver never stopped.
“She was a person, she was a mom, a grandmother,” said her daughter, Arliette Melara. “She didn’t deserve to be left like that.”
Ortiz leaves behind four children, nine grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Her family is devastated and searching for answers…