UPDATED: Woman, 93, Dies After Truck Hits Her House & Flees

UPDATED: 3:20 p.m., Friday:

Acting Chief Ralph Johnson released the following statement:

Bristol Boro Police Sergeant Pete Faight found the striking vehicle parked in front of 550 Bath Street, Bristol, PA.  Officer Shallcross and Officer Polistina responded to the scene with the striking vehicle parts recovered from 67 Redbrook Drive.  The parts matched the striking vehicle.  The vehicle was guarded for prints and duty tow was notified to respond there to tow the vehicle to our evidence processing garage.  Investigating officers started working the gathering crowd and received a tip that the driver was nearby.  News media had gathered at 550 Bath Street and the driver did not want to turn himself in there.  Investigating officers made arrangements to meet him away from the media at a gas station down the street.  The subject turned himself in and is at our headquarters being interviewed at this time.

UPDATED: 2:58 p.m., Friday:

Bristol Township police officials confirm the pickup truck believed to have been involved in striking the house where a woman on hospice was resting was recovered in Bristol Borough.

Acting Chief of Police Sgt. Ralph Johnson said borough police Sgt. Pete Faight spotted the damaged truck Friday afternoon.

The truck was towed from the 500 block of Bath Street in Bristol Borough and will be examined by investigators, the acting chief said.

Johnson told LevittownNow.com the driver of the truck is expected to turn himself in for questioning.

No word as of press time on charges against the driver.

6abc.com tweeted a photograph of the truck.

UPDATE: Truck suspected in Bristol house hit-and-run located http://t.co/4SMhl1zXDJ pic.twitter.com/kgBuJQKK6X

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Original Story:

Jennie Russo, who turned 93 on Friday, had a dying wish: to pass away in the bedroom of her Levittown home, surrounded by her religious statues.

That didn’t happen and police are looking for the person who ruined her wish.

About two hours after the bedroom wall of the longtime Bristol Township woman’s home was struck by a hit-and-run driver, she died in the living room, according to her son and police. Her son said he believes the excitement of the crash caused his ailing mother to pass away Friday morning at 4:55 a.m.

Ron Russo said he was sleeping  in a room over from his mother’s bedroom, where she was on hospice, when he heard a crash around 2:40 a.m. He rushed into her room to see a dresser leaning against his 58 pound mother’s hospice bed. He tended to her, scooped her up and moved Jennie Russo into another bedroom.

Minutes later, firefighters from Levittown Fire Company No. 2 moved the hospital bed into the living room of her home, Russo said.

“She was too frail for those moves, but we had to move her,” Ron Russo said.

A police investigation determined a red pickup truck traveling northeast on Rolling Lane lost control, left the highway and struck the corner of Jennie Russo’s house at 67 Red Brook Lane, according to officials.

Tire tracks on the lawn of 67 Red Brook Lane show the truck struck the home, reversed, drove through the front yard and off into the night.

“All I saw was red tail lights out in the front yard,” Ron Russo said. “None of the neighbors saw anything.”

Around 10 a.m. Friday morning, the Russo family gathered in the living room of Jenny Russo’s home discussing what had happened. In the center of the room, photos of Jenny Russo were laid out on her hospital bed.

“We just want to find out who did this,” a family member said.

“The sought after vehicle is a full-sized red pick-up truck, likely a 1994-1996 Dodge Ram or similar. It has significant front-end and moderate passenger’s side damage,” police said in a statement.

Anyone with information is asked to call Officer Paul Shallcross at 267-812-3096 or Officer Paul Aita at 267-812-3042.