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IT IS ALL CAUGHT ON TAPE.
SEE WHAT HAPPENED, NEXT.
Announcer: LIVE, THIS IS
"24 HOUR NEWS 8".
WE WANT TO GET TO A
DEVELOPING STORY IN KENT
COUNTY.
A 19-YEAR-OLD GRAND VALLEY
STATE STUDENT IS HIT AND
KILLED WHILE CROSSES THE
ROAD IN WALKER.
"24 HOUR NEWS 8'S" LEAON HEN
TRACKS IS LIVE ON THE SCENE.
LEON?
Reporter: MARLEE, GOOD
THIS IS A TRAGIC SITUATION
ALL THE WHICH AROUND THAT
VICTIM WAS ACTUALLY WHACKING
WITH TWO OF HER FRIENDS WHEN
THIS ACCIDENT HAPPENED.
INVESTIGATORS CLEARED THE
SCENE HERE A SHORT TIME AGO,
BUT THEY TELL US, THEY HAVE
A PRETTY CLEAR PICTURE OF
WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS
INVESTIGATION.
THE VICTIM WAS CROSSING
THIS HAPPENED.
SHE WAS WALKING FROM A SIDE
STREET, NOLAND AVENUE, NEAR
WILSON, HERE IN WALKER.
INVESTIGATORS SAY, A
DRIVERLE FROM THE HOLLAB
AREA WAS HEADING WEST ON
3-MILE WHEN SHE HIT AND
KILLED THE VICTIM.
POLICE SAY THE DRIVER SAYS
SHE DIDN'T SEE THE VICTIM
WHO THE POLICE SAY WAS
WEARING LIGHT COLORED JEANS
AND A DARK JACKET.
THE THREE YOUNG WOMEN WERE
WHACKING TOGETHER WHEN ONE
OF THEM CROSSED THED AND THE
VICTIM WAS CROSSING TO MEET
HER AS THE THIRD GIRL STAYED
BEHIND.
THE 19-YEAR-OLD GIRL WAS HIT
AND DIED HERE AT THE SCENE.
POLICE SAY, IT WAS AN
EXTREMELY DIFFICULT SCENE.
THEY HAD TWO FRIENDS OF THE
VICTIM BE A THE DRIVER OF
THE CAR WHO SHE SAY WAS
DISTRAUGHT ABOUT WHAT
HAPPENED.
POLICE HAVE NOT SAID WHERE
THOSE GIRLS WERE COMING FROM
OR WHERE THEY MIGHT HAVE
BEEN GOING.
POLICE CALLED IN A CHAP HANE
TO HELP CONSOLE THOSE
INVOLVED AS THEY WAITED
ANOTHER FRIENDS AND THE
FAMILY TO ARRIVE.
POLICE SAID, THEY WERE
WORKING TO NOTIFY THE
VICTIM'S FAMILY AND IS NOT
FROM THE AREA AND OBVIOUSLY
THEY ARE NOT RELEASING HER
NAME UNTIL THAT PROCESS HAS
BEEN COMPLETED.
THIS CASE AS USUAL FOR A
FATAL ACCIDENT SITUATION
WILL BE IMPORTANT THE
PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE BUT THE
POLICE TELL US THEY DON'T
FOLKS SEE CHARGES COMING OUT
OF THIS AND REALLY WHAT THEY
ARE CHARACTER OOZING IT AS A
TERRIBLE, TRAGIC ACCIDENT.