• Mary Yokono, 79, was killed in a 1985 hit-and-run accident in West Akron.
• The accident occurred exterior the household’s fashionable Italian restaurant Yocono’s.
• The household has not given up hope of discovering out in regards to the driver.

Late within the afternoon of November 1985, Mary Yokono walked throughout the road from her household’s West Akron, Ohio restaurant to a good friend’s home to ship early Christmas presents.

However night time fell shortly, and within the darkness of her return journey to West Trade Road, a automotive struck the 79-year-old grandmother, leaving her on the asphalt subsequent to her umbrella.

After being knowledgeable of the accident, her family rushed out of Yokono’s Italian restaurant and bumped into the road, shocked to see their dad and mom’ lifeless our bodies beneath a white sheet.

“It’s something you see in a movie,” Jamie Yokono, Mary’s granddaughter, recalled tearfully in a current interview. “When it happens to you in real life, it feels like it’s fake. It’s so surreal. Nobody expects it.”