A 21-year-old Milwaukee man is recovering after being struck in a hit-and-run early Sunday morning in the Franklin Heights neighborhood.
The crash happened around 2:20 a.m. May 3 near North 27th Street and West Townsend Street, according to the Milwaukee Police Department. Investigators say a vehicle struck a pedestrian and fled the scene. The pedestrian, identified as Julio Camacho, was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Camacho told TMJ4 News he had just picked up food from Munchies and was walking back to his car when everything went black. He has no memory of the impact and woke up hours later in a hospital bed. Doctors diagnosed him with a sprained ankle with a fracture, a sternal fracture, a bruised kidney, stitches in his elbow, an injured shoulder, and multiple bruises.
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“It could’ve been much worse,” Camacho said. “You probably would’ve thought this person was dead if it was in front of your house. That’s what people in the neighborhood thought.”
A witness who recorded video of Camacho lying motionless in the street described the collision as extremely loud. Frederick Ball Sr. said he was watching television just steps from where Camacho was hit. At first glance, Ball thought Camacho was dead…