New Photos Released of Car Wanted in Fatal Hit-and-Run of 5-Year-Old

Caption: 1) Video clip from neighbor’s home security camera shows street view of dark colored sedan minutes before it fatally struck a Chicago Lawn girl on May 23. 2) An enhanced larger view of the car.

Chicago Police have released new surveillance photos and provided more details of a car believed to have struck and killed a 5-year-old girl in Chicago Lawn last month.

Little Maria Gonzalez was crossing the street to return home after purchasing ice cream from the ice cream truck the afternoon of May 23 when she was hit by car in front of her horrified father.

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Surveillance video from a neighbor’s home security system showed a dark colored sedan driving in the 5900 block of South Mozart Avenue, where the young girl lived. Police said the car continued on without stopping.

Detectives from the Chicago Police Major Accident Investigations Unit believe the make and model of the car to be a 2-door, Honda Civic with a dull or primer finish, sunroof and spoiler. The vehicle may have a front end bra, sport muffler and a broken headlamp.

The new photo shows a different angle of the car driving down Mozart Avenue that is time-stamped 3:12 p.m., about three minutes before Maria was struck at 3:15 p.m. She was pronounced dead the same afternoon at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.

A second clip from the video shows an enhanced view of the car where the driver can be viewed in the front seat.

The vehicle was last seen traveling westbound on 60th Street from Mozart Avenue.

Anyone with information about the accident or vehicle is urged to call the Major Accident Investigations Unit at 312-745-4521 or call 911.