Fort Lauderdale, FL : Family of scooter-riding teen hurt in hit-run crash speaking out today on Tuesday, 11th December 2018

Sniffing back tears outside a hospital, Reina Gutierrez pleaded for a hit and run driver and witnesses to come forward while her son recovers from injuries sustained when struck on an electric scooter in Fort Lauderdale.

“This person left my son thrown down like an animal in the road,” Gutierrez said in Spanish as Police Major Frank Sousa translated her comments.

“I beg of you,” she said, at a news conference Tuesday. “If you saw anything please come forward.”

Gutierrez’s son, Alexis, 14, is in serious condition at Broward Health Medical Center.

He was taken there with multiple fractures and a head injury following the crash that happened shortly before 4 a.m. Dec. 1 while riding an electric scooter on the 600 block of North Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale.

“He was out with his siblings celebrating a friend’s birthday,” she said. “My oldest son told me they were renting scooters but I didn’t know about their plans to ride so late,” Reina Gutierrez said.

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