A driver in Milwaukee hit multiple cars before careening into a mother and her infant son. | Greg Rosenke/Unsplash
A driver in Milwaukee hit multiple cars before careening into a mother and her infant son. | Greg Rosenke/Unsplash
Linda Scott feels fortunate to now be able to put her Halloween season ordeal behind her.
While meeting with family and friends for a night of trick-or-treating in Milwaukee’s Humboldt Park, she and her young son Caron Lay were the victims of a hit-and-run driver, along with several others.
"During the incident when I was knocked out, I was told that my son was under the car," Scott told WISN 12 News this week. "He was still inside his stroller but right in front of her tire."
Scott said her fiancé was ultimately able to get Carson out of his stroller before the driver sped off, leaving them and others to try to make sense of the mayhem.
Along with scrapes and bruises, the young boy suffered a small tear on his liver.
“Thankful is the first emotion that comes to mind because my son is here,” Scott said. “I'm here. Thank God. We had people come out of nowhere helping. That shows there's hope in the world.”
Witnesses later told police officers the car that did all the damage was a dark-colored SUV, TMJ4.com reported. Milwaukee County deputies are still investigating, and Scott is desperate for answers.
"What possessed you to hit a mother and her child that was in a stroller and then kept pressing the gas pedal to the point where you almost killed my child?" she said. "Especially on a day where kids are trick or treating, it could have been anybody."
The mother and child have now been released from the hospital. Carson turned a year old on Thursday, the same day that friends of Humboldt Park had a meeting to discuss how to improve traffic safety in the area.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the sheriff's office.
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