Fort Worth Police are looking for a driver who hit a house early Sunday morning and then ran off. No one was injured inside but the accident has left a family of four without a home and uncertainty about what’s next.
Graciela Marron says she awoke in the overnight hours Sunday morning to her sister knocking on her door.
“She said, ‘They just ran into the house,’ and I’m like, ‘What?’” Marron recalled Monday. “As soon as I turned that corner and I saw it, it was just heartbreaking.”
A pickup truck plowed into the house the Marron family has called home for three decades and where two of Graciela’s sisters live, along with their mother and a niece.
Fort Worth Police responded just after 2 a.m. to the 2600 block of Wallace Street. When officers arrived, they found the truck still lodged inside the home, but the driver was gone.
Maria Marron told us in Spanish, she saw a young man run from the scene.
Fort Worth PD traffic investigators have not said if alcohol was involved but Graciela feels certain, at a minimum, speed was a factor.
“You can see the dip where he was trying to back out,” Marron said. “It’s scary, what one person can cause all this.”
The Marron family says they’re waiting for insurance adjusters to assess the damage before they know the next steps and whether the 100-year-old home can be saved.
They remain hopeful the driver will turn themselves in.
“Because of his actions, where my mom’s at right now, she has no home,” Marron said. “So, it’s hard.”