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AUSTIN POLICE ARE STILL
SEARCHING FOR THE DRIVER WHO
STRUCK AND KILLED A PEDESTRIAN
EARLY SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER
28TH, ON SOUTH FIRST NORTH OF STASSNEY.
STASSNEY. IT IS ONE OF 85
DEADLY HIT AND RUN CASES IN
AUSTIN SINCE 2005.30 OF THOSE
CASES REMAIN UNSOLVED...AS
DAVID SCOTT REPORTS ALL NEW AT
NINE, IT IS LEAVING POLICE
FRUSTRATED....AND GRIEVING
RELATIVES WITHOUT CLOSURE.
CLOSURE.
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31 YEAR OLD TYRELL SETH
WILLIAMS WAS STRUCK THE NIGHT
OF FEBRUARY 11, 2008, WALKING
HOME, WITHIN A MILE OF HIS
HOUSE. NO ONE CAME FORWARD.
FORWARD."FOR EVERY ONE OF
THESE NUMBERS, FOR EVERY
STATISTIC I TALK ABOUT, IS A
PERSON. THIS IS A BREATHING,
LIVING HUMAN BEING WHO HAD
OTHERS WHO LOVED THEM AND
CARED ABOUT THEM. AND THAT
TYRELL'S MOM STILL MOURNS. SHE
WROTE A BOOK, "THROUGH THE
GRIEF"...SHE RECALLS THAT HE
WAS STRUCK BY ANOTHER CAR
AFTER HE WAS DOWN.
"THOSE TWO PEOPLE STOPPED.
THEY CALLED 9-1-1. YOU CAN
THOUGHT SHE HAD KILLED SOMEONE
BUT HE WAS ALREADY DEAD."
DEAD."THERE ISN'T A DAY DAYTON
WILLIAMS DOESN'T THINK OF HER
SON. AFTER THREE TOURS IN
IRAQ, HE WAS HONORABLY
DISCHARGED FROM THE MARINES,
83 DAYS BEFORE HIS DEATH. ONLY
ABLE TO RETURN TO HAS HIS MOM
BEFORE HIS THE MARINES, 83
DISCHARGED FROM HE WAS
HER SON. AFTER DOESN'T THINK
IN IRAQ, HE WAS HONORABLY
DISCHARGED FROM THE MARINES,
NOW HAS HIS MOM BEEN ABLE TO
RETURN TO AUSTIN.
AUSTIN.YOU JUST GET TO A PLACE
YOU DON'T HAVE IT IN YOU. WELL
I'M AT THE PLACE NOW I HAD TO
COME, FOR MYSELF.
MYSELF.THE HOLIDAYS ARE TOUGH
FOR MS. WILLIAMS, SO IS HER
SON'S BIRTHDAY. CHRISTMAS DAY.
POLICE KNOW IT'S A COLD CASE,
BUT THEY HOPE FOR CLOSURE.
CLOSURE."A SOLDIER WHO THREE
TIMES WENT TO WAR ONLY TO COME
HOME AND BE KILLED BY A
CITIZEN HE WAS PROTECTING, I
THAT'S UNCONSCIENABLE.
UNCONSCIENABLE.DAYTON WILLIAMS
STILL WEARS HER SON'S DOG
HER SON, SHE SAYS:
SAYS:"PLEASE, PLEASE COME
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DAYTON WILLIAMS SAYS THE GRIEF
HAS BEEN SO DIFFICULT....SHE
AND HER DAUGHTER ARE
ESTRANGED. TOUGHEST OF ALL,
SHE SAYS WHEN HER SON WAS
DISCHARGED SHE WAS SO RELIEVED
KNOWING HE WAS OUT OF THE WAR,
SAFE AND FREE FROM DANGER. IT