GLENDALE, AZ – A 4-year-old girl died and another child is injured after being hit by a vehicle in a Walmart parking lot in Glendale.
On Wednesday morning, the Glendale Fire Department and the Glendale Police Department were called to the store near 56th and North Avenues for reports of an accident involving pedestrians.
At the scene, the teams found a group of five people who were hit in the parking lot.
Glendale city officials said a family, including three women, a boy and a girl, left Walmart and were on the sidewalk when it was hit.
According to detectives, a 68-year-old woman was driving a black Nissan Frontier. She pulled out of a parking space, stopped and went back to the parking space.
In doing so, she crashed into a parked car and jumped on the sidewalk, hitting the family.
Witnesses began performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on one of the children before the paramedics arrived.
Authorities say the girl, identified by her relatives as Nariah Johnson, died in the hospital and her 3-year-old brother has non-fatal injuries.
The children’s mother was taken to a hospital with non-fatal injuries. The grandmother suffered minor injuries and did not need to be taken to the hospital. A fifth person, the children’s aunt, was not injured.
The 68-year-old driver was not identified.
Authorities say there are no signs of damage, but an investigation is ongoing. No charges were announced.
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