PHOENIX — Three Greenway High School School students were detained in connection with a dangerous hit-and-run crash that left a man in the hospital Thursday morning. One is still in custody, Phoenix police said.
The crash, involving a stolen Kia, happened around 6 a.m. in a neighborhood near 35th Avenue and Bell Road.
Police said the driver hit and seriously injured an older man who was out on a walk. Then, the driver hit several other parked cars before crashing into a garage.
Surveillance footage showed that three juveniles got out of the car and ran off into the neighborhood, Phoenix police said.
With help from the School Resource Officer, all three students were identified and detained, police said. The driver of the vehicle was booked into Maricopa County Juvenile Courts Center, and the other two students were released to their parents pending charges.
Police have not disclosed their identities as all three are minors.
Some people living nearby told 12News they were sleeping when the crash happened.
“I woke up and I felt like I got hit. It was so loud, I felt it," Luciana Hagenmaier said.
Hagenmaier and her mother, Haydee Perez, went outside to see the damage. Two of their cars were hit.
"I ran outside. I wasn’t even worried about my car getting hit. It was mainly who ran into the garage, and I wanted to go see if they were okay," Hagenmaier said.
Hagenmaier and Perez watched as the driver ran off.
"I saw the kid run. I saw the kid run back here, all the way there, and I told a neighbor to stop him," Perez said.
Perez called 911 after discovering her neighbor was injured.
"We noticed that there was a man laying fighting for his life," Perez said.
The man is being treated in the hospital for serious injuries.
“He had no time to react or anything like that. It’s just so unfair," Hagenmaier said.
Perez said she doesn't know her neighbor well, but she sees him often.
“He walks every morning... we occasionally say hi," Perez said.
The investigation is still underway, and police have not disclosed the identities of anyone involved.
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