UPDATE: Culler Middle School student victim of a hit and run, police searching for driver
UPDATE:
Eleven–year–old Canaan Beason said he was hit by a turning vehicle Thursday morning.
Police said it happened around 7:30 a.m. near 54th and Vine streets, while Canaan was walking to Culler Middle School.
He said the driver looked at him and then drove away.
“I was like ‘why would you hit someone — or even an animal — and just drive away?'” Canaan said. “I understand you’re scared, but I would still get out to help them or something.’ And I’m just really mad that he would drive off like that.”
He said he suffered scrapes on his face and wrist. He said he told school staff about it when he got there.
“I couldn’t believe it,” said his mother, Danielle. “I was completely in shock, I just immediately started crying.”
She said Canaan had brain surgery last year and can’t take blows to the head.
“My biggest concern is that somebody wouldn’t have enough compassion to stop — and especially a child is laying in the street — and just to drive away,” Danielle said.
She said doctors looked at Canaan and said he doesn’t need x rays.
LPD is looking for an orange and black car, possibly a sports sedan.
If you have any information on this, they encourage you to call crime stoppers at (402) 475-3600, or the non–emergency line at (402) 411-6000.
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It was a scary situation for Canaan Beason Thursday morning.
The sixth grader was the victim of a hit and run.
Police said it happened around 7:30 a.m. near 54th and Vine streets while Canaan was walking to Culler Middle School.
Canaan wants to know why the driver did it.
“I understand you’re scared, but I would still get out to help them or something,” Canaan said. “And I’m just really mad that he would drive off like that.”
He said he suffered scrapes on his face and wrist. He he told school staff about it when he got there.
Canaan’s mom, Danielle, said he had brain surgery last year and can’t take blows to the head.
“My biggest concern is that somebody wouldn’t have enough compassion to stop — and especially a child is laying in the street — and just to drive away,” Danielle said.
She said doctors looked at Canaan and said he doesn’t need x rays.
LPD is looking for an orange and black car, possibly a sports sedan.
If you have any information on this, they encourage you to call Crime Stoppers at (402) 475-3600, or the non–emergency line at (402) 411-6000.
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Lincoln Police are looking for the driver of a car who an 11-year-old boy outside a Lincoln middle school Thursday.
LPD says the boy, Canaan Beason, was hit around 7:30 a.m. while walking to Culler Middle School.
Channel 8 Eyewitness News talked to Canaan and his mother.
“I was like ‘why would you hit someone – or even an animal – and just drive away,” Canaan said. “I understand you’re scared, but I would still get out to help them or something.’ And I’m just really mad that he would drive off like that.”
Canaan suffered several scrapes and other minor injuries, but his mother says the big concern is that he hit his head.
Danielle Beason says Canaan recently had brain surgery.
“My biggest concern is that somebody wouldn’t have enough compassion to stop – and especially a child is laying in the street – and just to drive away,” Beason said.
Lincoln Police are looking for an orange and black car.
Anyone with information is asked to call LPD’s non emergency line or Crime Stoppers.
