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The family speaks after the man was killed in Oakland.

A family in East Bay, whose loved one was hit and killed by a hit and driver in his wheelchair, speaks.

The 49-year-old Elmo Ballard drove his electric wheelchair through a crosswalk in Oakland on Sunday morning when he was hit by a car. Ballard's wheelchair flew and landed under the car.

The driver ran down. A witness took a video from the scene in which a truck driver was recorded who happened to be nearby and tried to raise the car until paramedics arrived. Elmos family prays for justice.

“He was loved by many from Richmond via Oakland to Pittsburgh to Seattle, Washington,” said Nene Young, the victim's niece.

A witness took a video of the scene and caught a truck driver who happened to be nearby and raised the car to relieve part of the pressure until paramedics arrived.

“He fought for his life under this car for a long time,” said Young.

The thought of his last moments is too much to do for Elmos family

“I'm destroyed. In shock I don't understand how something like this can happen,” said Patricia Ballard, the victim's sister

The Oakland police said they are actively looking for the driver and ask everyone with information to report. Elmos family asks the driver to do the right thing.

“We will fight. We want justice that I will not give up. My mother will not give up,” said Young.

Young said she worshiped her uncle Elmo, who was like a father for her.

“He had an SMS SMS almost every morning around 6 a.m. and said” good morning niece, “she said.

He recently wrote his cousin incredibly and complained about how wild in downtown Oakland “they shoot a specialist, crazy attentive with people,” he said. And now it has happened to him.

The family has set up a gofundme to pay the funeral costs of ELMO.

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