While make-shift memorials grow for a teen killed in a hit-and-run over the weekend, the victim’s family is asking the driver to step forward.
On Sunday, family and friends told CTV News the young woman killed in the crash was Faith Jackson, 18.
Police said she died after she was hit by a dark-coloured vehicle after 3 a.m. on Sunday.
The collision happened on 82 Street and 141 Avenue, friends told CTV News Jackson had just left a party nearby, and was walking home with a few friends when she was hit.
Later, investigators found a black Dodge Charger with front-end damage – that was believed to have been involved in the crash.
That car had been in the possession of an employee at a south Edmonton car dealership, and was reported stolen later Sunday morning.
Memorials have started near the scene, and at the inner-city high school where Jackson, the mother of a 16-month-old boy, had been working on completing her high school diploma.
“She was very bright, and she was articulate,” Boyle Street Education Centre principal Scott Meunier said. “But unlike the majority of our students, she was facing a lot of struggles in her life.”
Now, friends and family of the young woman are calling for the person responsible to step forward.
Anyone with information on the crash is asked to call the Edmonton Police Service non-emergency line at 780-423-4567 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
With files from Bill Fortier
