WANTED: Hit-And-Run Driver Who Struck Pauline Aluska

Police are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate the driver of an SUV that struck and killed Pauline Aluska in Lindenhurst last month.

Aluska, 54, was on Montauk Highway, near South 13th Street, on Aug. 14 at about 12:20 a.m. when she was fatally struck by a vehicle that fled the scene. Detectives have determined that the vehicle involved was a 2000 to 2004 white or light-colored Nissan Xterra. The photo above is of a similar model vehicle.

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward of up to $5,000 for information that leads to an arrest. Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS.

Aluska is the sister-in-law of Diane Aluska, the Lindenhurst mother who died after being struck by a car on Wellwood Avenue in May. Diane Aluska was credited with saving her daughter's life when a Toyota Corolla drove onto the sidewalk near the Lindenhurst Fire Department. In 2015, Pauline Aluska's brother, 61-year-old John Aluska, was killed in a hit-and-run crash a block away from where his sister was killed.