INDIANAPOLIS — Less than a week after Alexandra Leal was hit and killed while walking in a grassy area along Lynhurst Drive, fiancé Shane Bernard recently returned to the exact spot where it happened.
He brought flowers — and found a special bracelet.
"Just picked it up out of the grass, my little daughter's, a couple socks that flew out. That's what took her life, these socks and some other paperwork," said Bernard.
He said Alexandra was wearing the bracelet when the two were on their way home after leaving a storage unit. Alexandra noticed something had flown off the truck.
"I said, 'Let's just go.' She said, 'Pull over, we don't know what it is.' I pulled over. I said, 'Stay in the truck, I got it.' She got out. She's like, 'I'll give you a hand,'" Bernard said.
The next moments were caught on a neighbor's surveillance camera.
"We were walking to the truck I turned back around, and I see the headlights coming straight for us and I said, 'Move, Alexandra!' That's all I could get out and he hit her and I saw her fly so high in the air," said Bernard.
Bernard said two of their kids were in their truck at the time. He said he finally got the nerve to tell his daughter on Monday that her mother is not coming home from the hospital.
"I had to look her in the eyes and tell her her mom is never going to come back. That was hardest thing I ever had to do in my life," Bernard said.
Bernard said Alexandra was as beautiful inside as she was outside.
"Everybody loved her," he said. "She was so awesome. She was an angel. You didn't have to come and take her this fast from us."
After going days without answers, Bernard is asking the community to help them get justice.
"He needs to do the right thing and turn themselves in. Somebody has to know something. Somebody has to know this car has damage that they see on everyday basis," Bernard said.
13News reported previously that IMPD is looking for a silver 2002-2006 Toyota Camry. Police said there hasn't been an arrest and and it remains an ongoing investigation.
Police encourage anyone with information to call the IMPD Traffic Unit at 317-327-6549. People can submit tips anonymously to Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-TIPS (8477).