A doorbell camera recorded the moment a hit-and-run driver in Maryland struck and killed a man before removing the body from his car windshield and fleeing the scene.
The victim, Franklin Membreno Mendez, 28, was found dead on a street in Prince George’s County on Saturday, the Prince George’s County Police Department said in a Facebook post.
Police responded to the 7500 block of Ardwick Ardmore Road for a welfare check around 4 am when they discovered the body, which appeared to have suffered trauma.
Mendez was pronounced dead on the scene, officers said.
One neighbor found a video of the suspect when they checked their doorbell camera for possible footage of the incident.
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The video showed the suspect exiting his car and pulling Mendez’s body off his windshield before getting back in the vehicle and driving away, Fox 5 DC reported.
A preliminary investigation found that the victim had been involved in an unrelated minor collision about two miles away from the scene, police said.
It is believed that Mendez exited his car after that collision and was then struck by another car.
Instead of stopping, the suspect continued to drive to Ardwick Ardmore Road, where he left Mendez’s body and fled the scene.
Police said the suspect was believed to be driving a 2011 to 2017 gray Honda Civic with a large white decal across the top of the back window.
The car will have damage to its passenger side front bumper and fender and will have a hole in the windshield, police said.
Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying the suspect and have asked anyone with information to call the Prince George’s County Police Department’s Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit.
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