‘It’s Very Frustrating’: Daughter Confronts Police As Mother’s Hit And Run Killer Remains Free

SOUTH SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Family members of Lien Dang are frustrated and demanding answers.

Nearly 2 weeks aft a operator deed and killed Dang and past near the scene, constabulary person yet to marque an arrest.  Now, the Asian American assemblage is taking a basal for the family.

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The Sacramento Chinese of IndoChina Friendship Association (SCIFA) invited Dang’s household to conscionable with Sacramento Police and metropolis leaders to get answers connected the investigation.

Some mightiness accidental Dang had a bosom of gold. The 87-year-old great-grandmother had conscionable finished feeding the stateless erstwhile the car deed her arsenic she was walking location successful South Sacramento. The operator took disconnected and hasn’t been seen since.

Dang’s Daughter, Angela Chen, was not acrophobic to fto the constabulary cognize that she’s frustrated with the investigation. Her ma was walking on Lemon Hill Avenue Saturday, September 25th, conscionable yards from her flat analyzable erstwhile she was hit. Now 2 weeks later. constabulary person the car believed to beryllium progressive but not the idiosyncratic who was driving it.

“I’ve reached retired respective times to the detective. He has nary accusation to stock with us. And arsenic you tin spot arsenic family, it’s precise frustrating,” Chen told Sacramento Police Lt. Marnie Stigerts.

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“I tin archer you that it’s not being pushed aside, that surely is not the case,” said Lt. Stigerts.

Lt. Stigerts told Chen determination person been much than a twelve pedestrian fatalities successful the metropolis conscionable this year, keeping detectives precise busy.

“While we whitethorn person a car that’s successful our custody that we’ve done things with, it takes clip to process humor evidence.  It takes clip to process digit people evidence,” Lt. Stigerts told Chen.

The reply is not capable for household and assemblage members wanting the operator who killed a great-grandmother disconnected the streets.

“There are assemblage retired there, radical that seen what happened that night. We are conscionable asking that this volition not beryllium enactment aside. We cognize that determination are things going on, but determination is grounds retired there,” said Chen.

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Dang’s Grandson Robert Thach told CBS13 helium believes determination are different witnesses who saw what happened to his grandma and who whitethorn adjacent cognize of different idiosyncratic who was successful the car that deed her.  He’s hoping idiosyncratic volition travel forward.

Marlee Ginter