‘Left me for dead.’ Hit-and-run leaves Tacoma mother hospitalized and awaiting surgery
A Tacoma woman’s night out with a friend quickly turned south the moment a vehicle struck her, leaving her with several injuries.
Treshauna Perry, 32, said she and her best friend were grabbing some food before she went home on South Tacoma Way and South 52nd Street. She began to cross the street when a speeding car struck her at about 1:20 a.m. Sunday. Perry said that she immediately blacked out and does not remember getting hit. She does remember opening her eyes and not being able to get up.
Perry’s friend, Keisha Byrd, said Perry went into the air, flipped twice before she landed on her face. The car never stopped.
“Everybody just started screaming. I just started screaming. Honestly I thought she was dead because she wasn’t moving at first,” Byrd told The News Tribune. “It was just so scary.”
No arrests had been made as of Monday afternoon, according to Tacoma Police Department spokesperson officer Shelbie Boyd.
Police have not confirmed the description of the vehicle, but Perry said she found out through video footage from a nearby tattoo shop that it was a black mini-SUV.
The collision fractured both of Perry’s legs, with one needing surgery. Her face is scratched up and some of her teeth are missing. Perry also suffered a brain bleed. She said that she is unable to walk and that she does not feel like herself right now.
“I never even had a broken bone in my life, so this is just very traumatizing,” she said.
Perry’s mother, Cynthia Bismillah, said the person who struck her daughter has basically destroyed her life.
Bismillah said once she got the call informing her of the hit and run, she jumped out of bed and grabbed her husband so they could find Perry. Bismillah said she urges anyone who caught video of the incident or has more information to come forward.
“I want this person to be caught. He or she left her to die,” she said.
Perry said she is her son’s primary caretaker. She was supposed to see him off on of his first day of school Monday, but she couldn’t do that from the hospital.
“I just want justice to be served and for [the suspect] to be found,” she said. “They pretty much left me for dead.”
