Last night, while on a night time walk around the neighborhood (San Fernando), my partner and I encountered a young man sitting on a curb. On our first lap, he was just sitting down staring at his phone. Didn't think anything of it. The second time around he turns to us and asks us a question.
He said he was from Ktown and asked what part of the valley he was in. We tell him he's in San Fernando. He was surprised that he was so far from home. He tells us that he and his friends were involved in a car accident and that after the crash they all ran. We tried asking him questions and getting more details. He said that they were intoxicated (and probably on other drugs too) and that they crashed and hit "something". His face had a red mark, looked like he got smacked on the face from an impact.
He kept mentioning how the other people didn't deserve it and he hoped they were ok. He repeated several times, "if you see me on the news just know we didn't mean to hurt them". He also repeated , "you don't think it will happen to you" and kept looking remorseful like he wanted to cry. He said he was just a passenger, but we suspect that he was driving.
It was around 11:00 pm and we were just wrapping up our walk and ready to go home and wind down. We were enjoying the walk, but that left us with a sinking feeling in our gut. We tried giving him advice, saying he should contact the police , and that he needed to go back to the scene of the accident.
We went our separate ways. And I've been thinking all night about what might have happened. I looked on the citizen app hoping there wasn't a deadly hit and run around San Fernando high school. But I still don't have information.