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Police say the driver struck the girl as she ran into the street and rather than stop to render aid, he fled the scene.
A 55-year-old man in Arizona has surrendered after a 4-year-old girl was struck and killed in a hit-and-run incident a day earlier.
Shant Badleean of Glendale turned himself into police Saturday night, and he has been charged with felony hit and run with a bail set at $50,000, according to a CBS report.
A candlelight vigil was held that same night for 4-year-old Violeta Khachaturyan by family and members of the community, with a spokesperson for the family, Arshak Bareghamyan, saying that the victim’s father was “very satisfied with the phone call” informing him that a person had surrendered.
Khachaturyan was hit late Friday afternoon by a sedan and thrown onto the windshield of a nearby parked car on East Wilson Avenue in Glendale, and both her parents were there when the accident happened. The mother had run into the street to fetch a ball and the little girl followed her as the father tried to stop her but couldn’t get to her in time.
Khachaturyan ran between two vehicles and into the westbound lanes. When she was struck, witnesses said the driver didn’t stop to help but instead fled.
The girl was taken to the hospital where she died.
Local police are also attempting to raise funds for the girl’s funeral, with Chief Robert Casto calling it a “tragic event [that] weighs heavy on the hearts of all our police and fire personnel who were involved in the response and treatment of little Violeta,” according to the report.
The tragedy brought in members of the community who didn’t even know the family, with one person at the vigil saying that hearing of the incident “really hurt me,” according to the CBS report.
Officers have asked that checks be made out to GPOA Cops for Kids and to indicate on the checks that the donation is for the Khachaturyan family on the memo part of the check.
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