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August 24, 2004 | From Times Staff Reports
California Highway Patrol officials Monday were searching for two hit-and-run drivers who struck and killed a homeless man near Fontana on Sunday. Manuel Frias Vera, 35, was hit by a station wagon as he tried to cross Foothill Boulevard in an unincorporated area of San Bernardino County about 8:15 p.m. Sunday. The impact tossed Vera to the other side of the four-lane highway, where he was struck by an SUV, said CHP Officer Jessie Holguin.
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October 11, 1999 | GEORGE RAMOS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A 4-year-old boy was killed Saturday night when he was struck by two hit-and-run drivers in El Sereno, leaving shocked and outraged relatives and friends wondering Sunday why the motorists didn't stop to help. "If [the motorists] have families of their own, they know this could happen," the boy's grandmother, Maria Vazquez, said in Spanish, fighting back tears. "Look at what happened to my grandson. He was a good, happy boy." The woman, comforted by neighbor Priscilla Bravo, couldn't go on.
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September 6, 2002 | Associated Press
A third person was indicted Thursday in the case of a homeless man who was hit by a car and left lodged in the windshield until he died. Herbert Cleveland, 24, was charged with helping dump the man's body in Cobb Park to try to conceal the alleged hit and run. According to police, Chante Mallard told investigators she was returning from a nightclub Oct. 26 when she hit Gregory Biggs.
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June 22, 1991 | LEN HALL
A Laguna Niguel woman was killed late Thursday night when the car she was riding in veered off Camino Capistrano into an orange grove and became entangled in a chain-link fence. Maryfrancis Pulvino, 51, was declared dead at the scene of massive head injuries, said Stephen D. Eicherly, a deputy coroner. Police called in a Sheriff's Department canine unit to hunt for the driver of the 1971 Chevrolet El Camino. James Joseph Robertson, 39, of Laguna Niguel tried to flee on foot, said Lt. Richard J.
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June 8, 1991
An elderly man on a morning stroll Friday was struck and killed by a hit-and-run motorist, police said. Kentaro Morioka, 78, of West Los Angeles was crossing Bundy Drive at Ohio Avenue when he was hit about 5:15 a.m. The accident occurred a few blocks from Morioka's Bundy Drive residence. The driver fled and was being sought.
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September 30, 1996
An unidentified driver fled Saturday night after his truck smashed into an unoccupied California Highway Patrol car at a traffic stop on eastbound Katella Avenue, authorities said. The driver of a red Mazda pickup rear-ended the CHP car at 8:49 p.m. while the officer was talking to a driver he had stopped, said Officer T.T. O'Toole. The CHP car was parked in the slow lane with its directional lights on, O'Toole said.