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Children Ask For Help Finding Hit & Run Driver Who Killed Mom

DENVER (CBS4)- The family of a woman killed behind her home in North Denver is urging anyone with information on the hit-and-run driver to come forward.

Nadine Chavez, 53, was struck and killed in an alley between Fillmore and Milwaukee streets.

Denver police said the driver fled the accident near 33rd Avenue and Milwaukee Street, north of City Park, at about 8 p.m. Tuesday.

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Police said a silver or grey-colored Ford F150 truck with a stripe on the side was seen leaving the area.

Her children are horrified that someone would be so cruel to run down their mother and just keep driving.

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"We believe she was coming out to throw the trash, somebody hit her... they took off, they didn't stop to help her, they didn't... no regard for her," said Chavez's daughter Renee Chavez.

Those who knew Nadine have been stopping by to place candles and other mementos in her memory.

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Nadine Chavez (credit: CBS)

Nadine became friends with some of the firefighters in the neighborhood that she had gotten to know.

"She'd cook for them. My sister said she'd cook for them before she'd cook for the family," said Renee.

Renee said she has no idea who hit and killed her mother but does know what kind of person they must be, "Somebody without a conscience, no regard for human life. I beg them, what would they do if someone did that to their mother?"

Renee asks that the driver turn themselves in.

There will be a candlelight vigil on Saturday at 7 p.m. where she was struck to remember Nadine Chavez.

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