INDIANAPOLIS — Security video from a home on North High School Road shows the exact moment Dustin Dove's life changed.
The footage shows a car speeding down the street and hitting Dove before driving off.
"Maybe they were scared about having something in their vehicle they shouldn't have or something like that at the time, but go fix it afterwards, ya know?" Dove said.
The incident happened 1400 block of North High School Road, near 10th Street and Interstate 465 on the west side of Indianapolis, around 4 a.m. Aug. 18.
Dove and 13News reporter Chase Houle first spoke in August at his hospital bed, two days after he was hit. It was then we learned one of his legs would have to be amputated.
"I went from working 40 hours a week to not working and just trying to piece my life together," Dove said.
After nearly a month at a VA hospital, the Army veteran got to go home — but not to how he left it the night the crash happened. The bedroom he now sits in used to be the living room of his two-story apartment.
"Most of the time, it's sliding around the wheelchair. You got one-way traffic through certain areas and a couple places to U-turn. It's not like having your legs," Dove said.
Though it's not being in a wheelchair or where he sleeps at night that bugs him. Dove said it's the fact that he can't play outside with his 7-year-old daughter like he used to.
"Every time we went out and walked the dogs, I had her on my shoulders. She loved it, and I think that was one of the first things she asked about after my leg was gone was whether or not riding on my shoulders was over," Dove said.
In his hands, Dove holds the glasses he was wearing the night he was hit. He said they serve as a reminder of what happened. But as he looks at himself in the mirror, little hearts taped onto it serve as his biggest reminder that he's loved.
Dove said it will be another six months before he gets into his prosthetic leg.
As for the person who hit him, police have not yet charged or arrested the driver. IMPD says they have solved or made arrests in 16 of the 25 deadly hit-and-runs that have happened so far this year.
As for when the length of time between a case starts and ends, an IMPD spokesperson sent the following statement:
"As with all cases, timelines are dependent upon victim, suspect, and witness statements and availability, surveillance footage availability, evidence collection, and other various investigatory techniques, the community’s assistance and cooperation, as well as working with the MCPO. Each case is separate and independent, requiring accuracy and attention to detail in effort to provide an outcome through the judicial system for each victim and their families."