Eyewitness News Reporter cleve bryan live in upper darby tonight with the latest on the search and also reaction from horrified eye witnesses. Cleve. Reporter natasha, the authorities here in upper darby say the pursuit began outside of their jurisdiction and that the dirt bike driver came flying down 69th street here on this hill and then smashed into the grandmother and granddaughter at the next crosswalk. Now, we talked to many eye witnesses here who described the girls condition in particular as being heart wrenching. She was the one who got hit cause the tire marks was all on her side. Reporter First Responders worked quickly saturday afternoon. I seen it coming. I seen it coming cause of the way he was flying. Reporter shenay says they entered the crosswalk unaware of the Police Pursuit coming down the hill. They were inside of our store shopping and come out and getting ready to cross the street and thats when it happened. But he hit both of them they went flying up in the air.
Down a grandmother and granddaughter and carjacked another vehicle to get away. Reporter Authorities Say there is a person of interest in custody at upper darby police. Philadelphia Police Detectives are heading to chop and penn Presbyterian Hospital to check in with the victims. They tell us the youngest victim is in serious condition this is the scene around 1 30 p. M. When a man on the dirt bike hit a woman and child crossing the street together. Paris marshall witnessed the chaotic scene. The guy jumped off the bike and carjacked somebodys car and tried to get away, the cops was behind him, i hope they got the girl, they dont know if she was all right. The operator of the Motor Vehicle gets off and pulls a knife out and carjacks a vehicle and takes off with the vehicle. We have the vehicle in cobbs creek parkway. Reporter Philadelphia Police confirm a detail looking for illegal dirt bike riders tried to pull over the suspect in philadelphia before he crossed over into upper darby.
Street. It was passing cars by riding along the double yellow line in the middle of the road. Near a Pedestrian Crossing the dirt bike slammed into the child and her grandmother. He hit both of them. They went flying in the air and then he flew off the bike. Reporter the dirt bike driver left the sixyearold girl and her grandmother in the middle of the street and continued to try and evade authorities. The operator of this Motor Vehicle gets off it with a knife, pulls a knife out and carjacks a vehicle. Reporter that stolen vehicle was and abandoned a few blocks a wane the driver managed to flee again. A lot of people are coming forward to say what they saw so hopefully we get the perpetrator. I was heartbroken because that could have been anybody. That could have been my family. Like people like on these dirt bikes they really dont care about pedestrians or anything like that, they just speeding down the street. Reporter and Upper Darby Police say they do have a person in custody that
Street. It was passing cars by riding along the double yellow line in the middle of the road. Near a Pedestrian Crossing the dirt bike slammed into the child and her grandmother. He hit both of them. They went flying in the air and then he flew off the bike. Reporter the dirt bike driver left the sixyearold girl and her grandmother in the middle of the street and continued to try and evade authorities. The operator of this Motor Vehicle gets off it with a knife, pulls a knife out and carjacks a vehicle. Reporter that stolen vehicle was and abandoned a few blocks a wane the driver managed to flee again. A lot of people are coming forward to say what they saw so hopefully we get the perpetrator. I was heartbroken because that could have been anybody. That could have been my family. Like people like on these dirt bikes they really dont care about pedestrians or anything like that, they just speeding down the street. Reporter and Upper Darby Police say they do have a person in custody that
Maybe be a little uncomfortable. Not used to it. One day event we are talking about highs in the 80s. Good timing on Easter Sunday. Tonight maybe some rain chances and thunderstorm but most of the day should stay dry. We have church services, Easter Egg Hunts this morning it looks gooding across the dell wear valley. We are waking up to cloud and fog but those should thin out and we will see decent amount of sunshine. Lets look live at center city. Setting up for a nice sunrise in 20 minutes or so. Up to 61 degrees. Big difference from the upper 40s from yesterday. Look at that dew point, that tells us humidity in the air. It is middle of the summer dew point of 58 would be awesome. April, it is a little bit on the high side. We will feel that difference, there as far as humidity. Fifty in allentown. Sixtyone in philadelphia. Everybody is on the mild side already this morning. Even suburbs, we were in the 30s yesterday at this time. We are in the lower 50s for pottstown, 54 in quakerto