PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A grandmother is dead after she was struck and killed by a driver in Overbrook Friday evening.
Police say 77-year-old Dorothea Cathell was walking back from a ShopRite with Halloween decorations around 5 p.m. when a person in a black Infiniti with a paper Delaware tag hit her at 54th Street and Lancaster Avenue.
The driver then reversed down Lancaster Avenue, headed south, and dropped a passenger off at a pizza shop near 56th Street and Girard Avenue.Cathell was taken to a nearby hospital, where she died about 20 minutes later…