INDIANAPOLIS — In a security camera recording, you can see Dustin Dove and a friend standing at the end of a driveway waiting for an Uber early Sunday morning on the west side of Indianapolis.
Seconds later, you can see the car flying down the 1400 block of North High School Road, near 10th Street and Interstate 465, before it smashed into Dove around 4 a.m. Aug. 18.
The driver of the car then backs up. Dove's friend is waving his arms, telling the driver to stop, but they take off.
"His headlights lit me up. He hit me, and when he was backing up, he could see it, and I don't know why he didn't want to stop. I don't know why he didn't want to make it right," Dove said.
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Dove spent eight years in the Army. One of those years, he was deployed to Iraq, though it would be here at home where he would face his biggest battle: learning how to walk again.
"They had to amputate my leg in between my knee and my ankle. My bladder ruptured, so they had to stitch that back up," Dove said.
But Dove said it could have been a lot worse, and he's right.
According to Indy Pedestrian Safety Crisis, there have been three deadly hit-and-run crashes since Aug. 1. One of them happened within the last week.
"It's devastating because these aren't just numbers. There's a person behind each and every one of these incidents and families that are affected," said Eric Holt, founder of Indy Pedestrian Crisis.
And while Dove wants the person who hit him to come forward, his mother is asking the community for their help.
"If you have any footage whatsoever, please review it. If you find anything, any cars whatsoever, please contact the police. We would like to find the person that did this to him," Tina Dove pleaded.
Dove said the doctors believe it'll be four to six weeks before he'll be able to get up on his foot and about six months before he'll be walking well on his prosthetic.