Hit-and-Run Driver Kills 100-Year-Old Man in Oakland

Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who they say hit and killed a 100-year-old man in a popular Oakland pedestrian area.

It happened at about 7 a.m. Sunday at 19th and Harrison.

It’s a busy intersection for cars and a very popular walking area for thousands of people daily with Snow Park and Lake Merritt walkways right next door.   

A citizen shot a video not long after it happened and it showed the 100-year-old Asian man’s body covered about 35 feet from where he was hit in the crosswalk.

Oakland police confirmed it’s being investigated as a fatal hit-and-run and that the elderly man suffered severe head trauma.

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