Reward Offered In Hit-And-Run Death Of Upland Woman
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A memorial in Upland marks the location where Kristen Pretzer was found dead after police say she was hit by a car, and that driver left the scene without helping.
Now they're asking for your help finding who did this.
"I can't even believe it happened to my daughter, I can't even think about it," said mother Marilyn Pretzer. "I have to put it on a shelf and not think about it, otherwise I can't function."
The family has been continually near tears, talking about their loved one, begging the public for help finding who killed her.
"While we presume this was an accident, when this driver failed to stop and render aid or call 911, they became a murderer," said the victim's brother, Johnny Young.
Kristen Pretzer grew up in Upland, where she was the homecoming queen at Upland High School - popular, bright, a shining star in the community she loved.
But Pretzer struggled with addiction and ended up living the last four years of her life on the streets.
"It's been really difficult, we never got a chance to say goodbye, it was obviously something that happened so unexpected,"
daughter Cassidy Fierro said. "It's been dragging on and we've not had any chance to have any closure because nobody has come forward."
Police say on March 30 at around 2 a.m., Pretzer was walking across Mountain Avenue when she was hit and killed by a Honda Accord and thrown all the way to the sidewalk.
Now her mother, who is too weak to walk from her chair to the podium, is pleading with the public to find who killed her daughter.
"I would like someone to come forward, but I don't know who in the world knows anything about it, except who did it, but where did they go?" said Marilyn.
Police are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in this case. Anyone with information is asked to call Upland police.
