Elderly women struck in fatal hit-and-run in Southern California neighborhood

A tragic hit-and-run crash in the University Park neighborhood of Los Angeles claimed the life of a woman in her 80’s and sent another woman in her 90’s to the hospital Thursday, authorities confirmed to KTLA.  

Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department responded to calls of the fatal accident near the intersection of West Adams Boulevard and Magnolia Avenue at around 1:20 p.m. 

Details are extremely limited, but police say the hit-and-run suspect, who fled eastbound on West 25^th Street, was backing out of a driveway on private property when they struck the victims, described only as elderly Hispanic women.  

Footage of the crash scene captured by Sky5 showed several police cruisers blocking access to Magnolia Avenue, which was cordoned off by yellow crime scene tape.  

In the street, just off the sidewalk where the crash occurred, a canopy covered the body of the elderly victim who died at the scene.  

Medical personnel with the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to the scene and rushed the woman in her 90’s to a nearby trauma center, where she was listed in critical condition.  

So far, authorities have been unable to provide a description of the suspect vehicle involved in the fatal hit-and-run.