PALM BAY, Fla. — Palm Bay police are still looking for the driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash that may have involved street racing.
The crash happened Saturday in Palm Bay around 7:20 p.m. along Palm Bay Road near Babcock Street.
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According to Palm Bay police, two sisters, 61-year-old Noami Hammen and 58-year-old Maria Ramirez, both from West Melbourne were killed in the crash.
Marcel Wilson, Noami Hamen’s daughter, told Channel 9 that her mother and her aunt were out getting her grandmother some food.
“Don’t make innocent people pay the price of your adrenaline rush, don’t do it,” Wilson said. “It’s so preventable, so unnecessary and selfish and stupid.”
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Investigators said the sisters were turning into the Publix parking lot when they were hit.
“Street racing at 7 p.m. on a crowded street at an intersection like Babcock and Palm Bay Road. If it had been 3 in the morning and no one on the road except for my mom and my aunt, but it was a crowded street, what were you thinking?” Wilson said. “There was no heart attack, no pre-existing condition, nothing. Bottom line, two people were racing. And that’s why they are dead.”
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According to police, two other people were also hurt in this crash. The victims were inside a black car, and investigators are looking for dark blue Chrysler 300 that left the scene dragging its front bumper.
If you have any information on this deadly crash, please contact Palm Bay police.
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