A grieving sister is searching for answers after a hit-and-run in Vallejo left her brother dead.
Stevie Watkins said her brother was homeless after coming here from Texas looking for a new start."He was a really sweet person. He was loved," Watkins, who lives in Texas, said she was stunned when she received news that her brother Connor had been killed by a hit-and-run driver.
"It was devastating. He was my baby brother," said Watkins, "Everything's gone. I'm never going to see my brother again." On Sunday around 7:15 p.m., Vallejo police said they found Connor lying in the roadway at the intersection of Sonoma Boulevard at Arkansas. Police released images of the white sedan they said is responsible for hitting the 29-year-old while he was in the crosswalk and left the scene."You left my brother to die. He was a person," Watkins said the two of them had a difficult childhood in Texas.
Their single mother was often unable to care for them. She took her own life and Connor was the one who found her.His dream of becoming a police officer became impossible.In Vallejo, Sam Saleh told KTVU Conner would come to Omayh Food Mart, a store owned by his family, several times a week starting last August. Saleh said Connor became friends with him and his relatives. Now, Saleh is stunned that Connor has been killed.
"I would always see him come and get food and snacks. And he would never have enough, so I would just always give it to him and we'd always strike up a conversation," Saleh said Connor told him about his journey and his dream of becoming a performance artist, "Came over here, hitchhiked. He pretty much got stuck out here, and I found out his sister's name.