Search underway for hit-and-run driver who left woman for dead

ATLANTA — A driver who hit and killed a woman is still on the streets. The victim's sisters and detectives are now pleading for help from the public.

Markings remain in the roadway along Moreland Avenue that show where Dondril Tye was hit. Her family placed balloons and flowers along the road to honor her.

“They hit my sister, left my sister for dead,” Tanjills Tye-Sawyer said.

Tye-Sawyer and Tabatha Conker told Channel 2's Christian Jennings that they had an unbreakable bond with their sister.

“For them to kill my sister like that really took a part away from me because she was everything to me,” Tye-Sawyer said.

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Atlanta police say Tye was trying to cross the street Friday night on Moreland Avenue near Custer Avenue when she was hit by a car. That car kept going.

“It may have started out as an accident, but it became malice when they left her there to die and didn’t get her help,” Conker said.

Tye's sisters say she was less than a half-mile from her home. She walked everywhere and was likely headed back from the store when she was hit Friday around 9 p.m.

“When the medics got there, they turned her over, made several attempts to revive her, which was unsuccessful,” Conker said.

Police say they need the public's help.

The family wants justice and closure. That's why Tye's sisters contacted the Channel 2 Action News newsroom hoping that sharing the story would help find who's responsible.

“If anyone seen something, any speeding car up Moreland, down Custer, any of those streets pulled over with a flat tire, just call the police and say something, please,” Tye-Sawyer said.

Atlanta police said the car responsible would have a damaged or flat passenger side front tire.

They want you to give them a call if you think you saw a car matching that description around the Moreland Avenue area Friday night.

Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers at 404-577-8477.

A GoFundMe account has been set up to help with funeral expenses.

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