NUTLEY, N.J. – A New Jersey family is heartbroken after a 22-year-old was struck and killed, and the driver just kept on going.
The crash happened on Valentine’s Day in Nutley, N.J.
The family want answers.
“I just want my son back,” Ana Najera said, crying.
Najera was left heartbroken after her son Wiston Perlaza was killed on Valentine’s Day.
“Whoever did this, turn yourself [in]. Please,” Najera said.
“He had a big heart. A big heart. Everyone loved him. He had a big heart. They took his life too soon,” Wiston’s sister Natalie Perlaza said through tears.
A bouquet of flowers was left at the scene in Nutley.
Investigators say the driver, who fled the scene, struck Wiston Perlaza on Milton Avenue near a Garden State Parkway overpass.
“He was only 22. He was going to be 23 on Monday. He had so much ahead of him,” Natalie Perlaza said.
Perlaza’s mother and siblings said he was hanging out with a female friend when the tragedy happened.