ELLENTON – “You can’t hit a person and leave and think it’s okay,” said Manager of Cali Nails, Kim Vo.
40-year-old Cuc Luong, known as ‘Tina’ was killed late Saturday night while riding her bicycle on 37th St. East, and Ridgewood Blvd.
“A person that is so good and so kind, she would loan the shirt off her back for you, she’s is that type of person, and now to be gone, it’s not right it’s not fair,” said Vo.
Her neighbors, Kari Nowakowski and her husband, found Tina lying in the ditch. Kari tells SNN, the roadway was so dark they only discovered Tina because they ran over her shoe in the street and saw a faint light on her bike coming from the ditch. They called for help and also noticed the driver’s side mirror on scene.
Tina was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition and later died.
“At this point in time the Florida Highway Patrol’s traffic investigators are looking for a Hyundai possibly a sonata, grey in color, anyone with information on this vehicle or someone who may have seen vehicle with front end damage to the right side, please notify the Florida Highway Patrol or Crime Stoppers,” said Florida Highway Patrol State Trooper, Kenn Watson.
Tina, described as a hard worker, came to the U.S. to seek a better life for her family; she worked seven days a week with her husband at Cali Nails in Parrish to send money home for her 3 kids.
“You go to a foreign country to have a better life, and now there’s nothing left,” said Vo.
Her coworkers have set up a GoFundMe to help Tina’s husband pay for her burial.
The Florida Highway Patrol is requesting anyone with information concerning this crash to contact Crime Stoppers or *FHP (*347) on a cellular phone.
To visit the Go Fund Me page, you can click here.
