Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook announces that tomorrow marks the five -year anniversary of a hit and run incident that seriously injured a local cardiac nurse.
The family of Lindsay Bires is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect (s).
On September 16, 2012, Lindsay was standing on the sidewalk at Medical Park Drive during a work break from Palmetto Health Richland Hospital.
According to witnesses, a white compact car ran off the side of the road twice before making impact with Bires causing life-threatening injuries. The driver did not stop or render aid.
After the incident, those same witnesses helped Bires, and were able to get medical personnel on site immediately.
According to her family, the road to recovery since the incident has been extremely difficult.
Despite Lindsay’s daily agony, she is a strong victim who refuses to lose hope.
Lindsay says, “Although I have made significant progress in my recovery, every day since the accident has been filled with pain and struggle. My life as I knew it ended 5 years ago and I have had to fight to regain every inch of it.
Meanwhile, the selfish person who hit me continued on with their life uninterrupted, as if nothing happened at all. I have undergone more than 25 operations and year after year of intense therapy, the whole time wondering how this person could sleep at night without admitting what they had done.
I do, however, hold out some hope that the suspect will be caught or be turned in to truly face what they did to me. There is someone out there who knows something.
Please come forward. I am hysterically crying as I write this. That person took away my entire life as I knew it; please don’t keep this to yourself any longer.
Help me at least recover some justice and closure for what was done to me, in this horrible chapter of my life.”
In an effort to generate Crimestoppers tips, CPD is asking citizens to recall specific conversations they might have had with someone regarding the incident.
For example, did that person act differently/nervously during the discussion, or show signs of guilt and remorse?
It is also important for citizens to recall someone who may have driven a white compact car during the time of the incident and/or had vehicle repairs done.
Chief Holbrook encourages citizens with any information about the crime to call, text or submit online, their anonymous tip to Crimestoppers in any of the following ways:
CALL toll-free, 888-CRIME-SC.
TEXT to CRIMES (274637), and mark the beginning of the message with “TIPSC,” followed by the tip information.
LOG onto: www.midlandscrimestoppers.com, and click on the red “Submit a tip” tab.