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This month, Sherri Winston ought to have been celebrating the 21st anniversary of the adoption of her 24-year-old daughter. As a substitute, she appeared Friday at an Orlando Police Division press convention to ask the particular person chargeable for Lauren Winston’s dying to “step up.”
“I need them to come back ahead or be delivered to justice as a result of that’s the suitable factor to do,” Winston stated.
Lauren Winston was crossing the intersection of East Washington Avenue and Magnolia Avenue about 1 a.m. Nov. 6 when a 2015 black Dodge Challenger ran a crimson gentle and struck her, in accordance with police.
The motive force fled and the younger lady was pronounced lifeless on the hospital.
“She was my little trip or die,” her mom instructed reporters Friday. “… She made single parenthood really feel so easy that I adopted one other little one. She actually modified my world.”
Police stated they’re looking for the general public’s assist to seek out the driving force who struck and killed Lauren Winston earlier than fleeing the scene. The automotive’s tag is B4MSF and believed to have harm to its hood, stated Sgt. John Keefe.
OPD is providing a reward of as much as $5,000 for data.
Anybody who might help is requested to name OPD at 321-235-5300 or Crimeline at 1-800-423-8477.
“We’d like your assist to get justice for Lauren,” Keefe stated. “… It’s unfair what occurred… taking away this life from this household.”
Sheri Winston stated her daughter had a “large coronary heart” and was an animal lover — her dying has left her mother caring for “a few stray pets that she had introduced in and promised that she was simply going get them again to well being.”
“That’s who she was,” the grieving mom stated.
Lauren Winston was a Freedom Excessive College graduate and was working in retail on the Florida Mall, her mother stated, including that “this younger lady was liked, she was cherished, she was contributing. … She actually was simply beginning to determine what she needed to do.”
When Keefe was requested why police had been unable to apprehend the driving force, regardless of realizing the car’s tag quantity and to whom it was registered, he stated the particular person accountable doubtless is “hiding.”
“They’re not stepping up,” he stated. “They’re hiding and that’s why we want folks’s assist.”
Sheri Winston stated she needs the driving force to fess up or be caught, not as a result of she feels “vengeful” however as a result of accepting accountability is what she would have anticipated of her daughter had the roles been reversed.
”What I’m asking for is for whoever is accountable to step up,” she stated.
