Hit-and-run in Brooklyn days before Mother's Day leaves mother dead, daughter injured

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Police are looking for the hit-and-run driver who killed a 71-year-old woman and injured her 44-year-old daughter at a Brooklyn intersection days before Mother's Day.

NEW YORK -- A hit-and-run driver in Brooklyn killed a woman and critically injured her daughter days before Mother's Day. Detectives said the driver got out of the car and ran after crashing into 71-year-old Juanita Vidal and her 44-year-old daughter, who were walking on Elder Street near Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick , on Thursday evening. First responders rushed the women to the hospital, where Vidal died. Andrea Harris, a neighbor, said she was a devoted mother and grandmother.

car.Investigators said officers were trying to pull over the driver for a traffic infraction, but they took off.

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