''They should have stopped': Son grieves mom's hit-run death in Queens on Christmas
JAMAICA, Queens (WABC) -- The son of a 45-year-old woman killed in a hit-and-run on Christmas night in Queens is speaking out on the heartbreaking tragedy.
Officials say the victim, Antonina Freycinet, was found in the intersection of 111th Avenue and 158th Street at around 9:35 p.m., just up the block from where she lived.
Freycinet's 20-year-old son, Andrew Dasrath, said his mother was struck by two cars shortly after she left the house to walk to the store. He says one of the cars didn't stop and a second didn't see her.
"They should have stopped and called the police, maybe she would have been alive," Dasrath said.
In surveillance video from a few houses down, cars can be seen driving in both directions just a few moments before onlookers stop and focus their attention to accident scene.
"I remember hearing one of the teenage boys, saying 'please mom, please.' It was heartbreaking to hear," said witness Bryan Lopez.
Those were among the final words Freycinet heard from her children as she lay fatally wounded in the intersection.
"You can actually kind of see that little like red mark over there," Lopez said. "That's precisely where she was laying down."
Dasrath said he tried to make sure his mother didn't move too much.
"She was breathing. Everything was good. I thought she was going to be OK, but yeah, but they said her heart stopped in the ambulance and then they couldn't revive her after that," he said.
Freycinet later died from her injuries at Jamaica Hospital.
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