INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD is investigating a hit-and-run that left two people injured. It was all caught on an outside home surveillance camera Thursday evening.
"It is very tough to watch. I gasped out loud. I was horrified," said Natisha Cooper, describing her reaction to watching the video captured just outside her home at East 15th Street and College Avenue.
The video explains why Cooper came outside her home March 21 to see a man and woman, both injured on the sidewalk.
"There was a gentleman there bleeding from his head, and I said, 'What happened? Are you OK?' And he said, 'No. We just got hit by a car,'" Cooper recalled.
In the video you can see the two walking across College Avenue just a few moments earlier.
Then, you see a vehicle enter the frame.
The vehicle hits the man and woman on the front passenger side, throwing them into the air.
Then, you see them lying in the street.
The driver of the vehicle then makes a right turn onto East 15th Street and gets out of her vehicle, walking over to the people she just hit.
You can see the man stand up and retrieve his shoes, while the woman with him is crawling to the sidewalk.
The driver picks something up off the road near the woman, and then, you see the driver go back to her vehicle and bring the pair a blanket before closing the vehicle's back hatch and drive away.
"They were dazed. They were very dazed and in shock. You could tell," Cooper said. "They weren't saying much, but when I asked them, 'Are you hurt anywhere else?' The girl told me her back, and she said her right leg."
Cooper called 911 and waited for police and an ambulance to get there.
By then, she was able to watch surveillance video on her phone, showing what had happened to the man and the woman, as well as the driver's response.
"You could tell (the driver) was very nervous, just by watching the video. You could tell she was very freaked out, and who could blame her? She had just crashed into two people," Cooper said.
Cooper hopes the driver, whoever she is, comes forward.
"That's a lot to have resting on your conscience, and I'm afraid that's going to eat her up if she doesn't face it," Cooper said.
From her hospital bed, Lauren Williams talked with 13News Tuesday about the crash and the driver who struck her.
"It shows that she cared and had a conscience, but I think that she saw that it was more than she could deal with and more than she wanted to deal with and she just kept going," Williams said.
IMPD says so far it has no updates on the investigation.