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Speaker 1: What happened to Francisco Rodriguez? Why was he mowed down

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Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grays. This is crime story straight out to

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Speaker 1: Ellen colorin Crime Online dot Com investigative reporter Ellen. What

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Speaker 1: happened Francisco Rodriguez, an avid cyclist who was always aware

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Speaker 1: medical examiner, author of Homicide Investigation Field Guide, explained to

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Speaker 1: ask you, Wilcot, juvenile court judge, trial lawyer, you can

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Speaker 1: find her at aske you Wilcot dot com Ashley, the

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Speaker 1: At this our prayers go on for Francisco Rodriguez. His

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Speaker 1: du Pray jointing me Medical examiner Dodger du Pray. Why

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, that's off last year's blah blah blah and

429
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Speaker 1: Nissan CenTra and this is um Ocean pearl color and

430
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,879
Speaker 1: they had that color, you know, for two years in

431
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Speaker 1: seventeen and eighteen. Keep talking, keep talking. I mean that's

432
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 1: their bread and butter, that's their trade. They know this. Man.

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00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 1: I'd take that mirror straight down to the Nissan dealership

434
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,719
Speaker 1: and get some answers, and then another thing, think about it,

435
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,600
Speaker 1: as you wild Cup, I would start as at the

436
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: location where the incident happened, and I go out maybe

437
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 1: five blocks, and I'd find, if I could, as best

438
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:59,919
Speaker 1: as they could, every Nissan, let's just say a Nissan CenTra, okay,

439
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: Nissan Sentra owner within those blocks. Then move out. And yes,

440
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,360
Speaker 1: I know they could have resold it. I know that,

441
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,360
Speaker 1: but you have to start somewhere. That's where I would start. Ashley, Oh,

442
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 1: agree completely. And not only that, but think about this.

443
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: It's missing a mirror and who knows if they're going

444
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: to go get it fixed or not, but they may not.

445
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: So it's important not only in starting in that inner

446
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 1: circle search. Remember this was two am, so there's a

447
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 1: good chance whoever was on the road at two am

448
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,239
Speaker 1: might have been close to their home or wherever they

449
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,679
Speaker 1: were going and parking the car. So you need to

450
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: start with that circumference. Then expand your search. You need

451
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:36,639
Speaker 1: to look for this type of Nissan, and you need

452
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,679
Speaker 1: to look for one that's missing a mirror. And you

453
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 1: need to canvas and ask people if not only do

454
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: they know if anyone drives this type of car, but

455
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 1: this type of car or a car that's missing a

456
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: specific mirror, because that's another clue. Yeah, and when you

457
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 1: get your mirror, your SI mirror totally whacked off, it

458
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:59,679
Speaker 1: takes a minute. I'm talking about weeks, days or weeks

459
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: where you can get that part in. Then you gotta

460
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: take it and get it fixed. Right now, everybody, A

461
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: mother is begging for help to identify a hit and

462
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 1: run driver who leaves her son, her boy, seriously injured.

463
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:32,640
Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. She was about to turn

464
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 1: twenty one and had just gotten a new job at

465
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 1: Setting Now a hospital. Now, the family of Jennifer Lopez

466
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: wants the driver who took her life to do the

467
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: right thing. Turn yourself in because regardless of what it is,

468
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: it's gonna take you wherever you go. You killed a person.

469
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Speaker 1: This surveillance video shows the moment of impact a Mitsubishi's

470
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: slamming into Lopez's Nissan at the corner of a Laundrey

471
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: Boulevard and Bullets around nine last night. I saw that

472
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: guy get out to the track, and Catalina Tapia told

473
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 1: us she witnessed the crash from her home. Her own

474
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: car badly damaged the stop sign next to its, showing

475
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,479
Speaker 1: the force of a collision. We watched surveillance video from

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Speaker 1: two different angles. Both appear to show the driver run

477
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: the stop sign at high speed. When first responders arrived,

478
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: she was declared dead at the scene. Her cousin calls

479
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: her a quiet person who kept to herself and who

480
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: was very nice. If you know, if you're watching this,

481
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: let us go to the police station, because you left

482
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 1: a mother and the family. You're hearing our friend Ted

483
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 1: Chin at NBC four LA and another family begging for

484
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 1: answers after a hit and run takes off, leaving a

485
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 1: young mother dead. In this case, Francisco Rodriguez is still

486
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 1: in the hospital under heavy sedation. The hospital doctor's keeping

487
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: him on her sedation to hopefully allow his brain trauma

488
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: to heal, and joining me. His mother, Elisa Casciano, begging

489
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 1: or that person to come forward, that person that mowed

490
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 1: down her son, her boy. If you have information, please

491
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 1: call Sacramento Police nine one six two six four five

492
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: four seven one now. According to police, this incident occurred

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00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:22,959
Speaker 1: at Alhambra Boulevard. A Nissan type vehicle fled the scene

494
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 1: immediately after. To Elsa Costiano, this is Francisco's mother, What

495
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: did it do to you? What did you feel? What

496
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: did you think when you first heard and how did

497
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: you hear Francisco had been injured. They got a hold

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00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: of my son, Jimmy, and he called me and said

499
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: mom called the hospital, and then when I called the hospital,

500
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: they just said that they couldn't tell me anything because

501
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 1: he's John Doe and I'd have to go and claim him.

502
00:30:55,520 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 1: And so I merely my heart just oh my god,

503
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: it's just it was a nightmare. It's still a nightmare

504
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: that so when I went over there and I've seen

505
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: him all machined up and stuff and just just killed me.

506
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: It's changed everything, my whole life. My son's life and

507
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,719
Speaker 1: to see him laid in that bed and not waking up,

508
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: it's just breaking my heart. I'm just I'm trying to

509
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: hold it together and to see him there and I

510
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: want him just to wake up and he's not waking up,

511
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: and it just I just I want him to be okay.

512
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: I want him to to wake up and be able

513
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 1: to talk and be able to do everything he does

514
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: every day. It just it just kills me. I'm i cry,

515
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: you know. And he had a video he made a

516
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 1: video for me on my birthday and I'd lay that

517
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: over and over and over um because he loves me dearly,

518
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: you know. And and I just listened to that videal

519
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: day and night. Want him to wake up. He made

520
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: it too week for this accident with me. As Francisco's

521
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: mother Alisa Costiano begging for answers to doctor Michelle Dupre,

522
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: medical examiner and author, doctor Dupree, recoveries do happen? The

523
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: fact that he is still sedated. They are keeping him

524
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 1: sedated to give his body a chance to heal. What

525
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: does that mean? Why are they doing it? Doctor Nancy.

526
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: They're doing that to give the body time to rest.

527
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 1: And absolutely there's chances for recovery. It's really more of

528
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,239
Speaker 1: a functional recovery because the functions of the brain of

529
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 1: what are usually impacted in these kinds of cases, and

530
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 1: so we see recovery all the time, but it is uncertain.

531
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: We just don't know. At this point in time, we

532
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 1: are talking about a hit and run where Francisco Rodriguez

533
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: is left by this side of the road, face down.

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00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: Stephen Lampley Detective Traffic investigator or Stephen Lampley dot Com.

535
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: I've often wondered that the frame of mind, and I've

536
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: covered and investigated so many hit and runs, what mentality

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00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: that is to just leave someone on the side of

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00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: the road. I mean, I wouldn't even do that to

539
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: an animal, much less a human with a mom with Elisa,

540
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: you know, somewhere wondering where is my boy? I mean,

541
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 1: you've dealt with this so many times, Stephen. What have

542
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 1: you observed in hit and run defendants? Well, they say

543
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: they don't obviously they don't care. It's all about them,

544
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: and it's almost a psychopathic mentality. Not every time, but

545
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: you've got people that are going to perhaps violate the law.

546
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: This this person could have been a DUI, could have

547
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: been on drugs, may have had warrant, this card may

548
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: have been stolen. Who knows what the circumstances, but it's

549
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,959
Speaker 1: all about them and they don't care who they had

550
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 1: to hurt in order to get away too. Ashley Wilcott,

551
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: judge lawyer you can see or Ashley Wilcott dot com

552
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: Ashley the frame of mind to me as someone that

553
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 1: can detach themselves from what they've done. Yes, and so

554
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: let me suggest this number one. If they were intoxicated

555
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: or impaired, I think by now they would have come

556
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,240
Speaker 1: forward and said, oh, I think they would have turned

557
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:32,959
Speaker 1: themselves in. Otherwise, I think it's exactly what you said.

558
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 1: It's somebody who detached remove themselves from it in denial,

559
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 1: can't believe it and aren't coming forward. And I cannot

560
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:45,720
Speaker 1: understand that mentality either. But then again, as rational people,

561
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:49,280
Speaker 1: we don't always understand the mentality of criminals. At this point,

562
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 1: whoever did this as a criminal, they need to come forward.

563
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: Sacramento Police Department says there is a reward of at

564
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 1: least one thousand dollars for any information. There's a go

565
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:05,359
Speaker 1: fund me set up help Francisco Paco with recovery. I'm

566
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: looking at it right now. He is still unconscious. He

567
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 1: was mowed down by an unknown person and what we

568
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: think is a Nissan a hit and run on a Saturday,

569
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 1: left lying on the side of the road face down

570
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: severe injuries. The family is asking for help in identifying

571
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 1: who did this. He had his very first surgery to

572
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: reduce pressure on his brain to allow healing. What we

573
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 1: know right now the police are looking for a particular

574
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 1: color of a Nissan missing a side mirror. Police number

575
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:50,320
Speaker 1: nine one six eight zero eight zero six two zero

576
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 1: repeat nine one six eight zero eight zero six two zero.

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00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: Back to Francisco's mother, Elisa, I'm trying to figure out

578
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: from what you're telling me exactly how much progress police

579
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 1: have made in finding this person. I got a very

580
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: strong feeling that they were drunk driving, so that's what

581
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:16,320
Speaker 1: the police officers. The detective mentioned that I really haven't

582
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 1: really talked to them much. It was hard for them

583
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,399
Speaker 1: to get a hold of them first of all, and

584
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: I have a niece that is dealing with him that

585
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:27,879
Speaker 1: we haven't heard anything else on that, you know. I'm

586
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: looking at his bike like you told me when you

587
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 1: say it was lit up, Jackie, have you seen this

588
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 1: bike it's really lit up. I mean both wheels are

589
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: completely lit. It looks like with red lights. The body

590
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: of the bike is lit everything basically every part of

591
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 1: the bike is lit up. It's like crazy lights on here.

592
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 1: How could you not see it now? I know what

593
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: you mean A Lisa, Yeah, it's he lit it up

594
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: because you know here in Sacramento we do second Saturday

595
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,399
Speaker 1: bike rights and every week and they have bike rights

596
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 1: and it's all about decking up your bikes with all

597
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: these lights, you know, to be safe at night. And

598
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: so he just he got all those that day and

599
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 1: put them all on there. That day. Her son came

600
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 1: into the hospital as a quote John Doe. They had

601
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 1: no idea who he was, no idea whose family is.

602
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: And today his mother begging for answers to Francisco's mother,

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00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 1: Elisa Costigano, what is your message to the person that

604
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: mowed down Francisco. Please turn yourself in, Please turn yourself in,

605
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: do the right thing. You need to do the right thing.

606
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 1: Turn yourself in because we need to find out who

607
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: did this. We need to find out who did this.

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00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 1: You need to turn yourself in. There again, is a

609
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: go fund me right now to help Francisco Rodriguez and

610
00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: his mother also lift up your prayers for his recovery.

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace Crime Story signing off goodbye friend,