“I Watched it Happen”, Mom of Baby Killed by Hit and Run Driver Tells Her Story
SEATTLE – “We were almost home”. Karla can’t believe she is talking about the night she had no choice but to watch a hit and run driver blow a red light in and strike the car in front of her.
Inside that car were her husband, Jon, and their 3-month-old baby Jayden.
The couple spoke exclusively with Q13 FOX News Monday, just days before the accused hit and run driver, Matthew Hamilton, is expected to plead guilty to vehicular homicide in Pierce County Superior Court.
Karla and the couple’s daughter were following Jon home in a borrowed truck the night of January 24th.
They were just a mile from their house – she describes seeing another car ‘really hauling’ east on 20th Street where it intersects with 70th Avenue East.
Jon driving on 70th was about to enter the intersection. She remembers thinking “If he hits Jon’s car he’ll hit the side… right where the baby is”.
She remembers seeing the car pass behind some trees, then come back into view. “He wasn’t slowing. All I could do was watch it happen.”
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