desperate to find jessica before any harm comes to her. she s really young. she s 12. anybody can easily grab her or try to get her to come. reporter: they re posting her picture around their neighborhood and near the library downtown where jessica s mom came to pick her up just before 6:00 wednesday evening. they argued and jessica went back inside to get something she said she forgot but a staffer saw her leave instead out the library s backdoors. jessica never showed back up and mom goes in and finds out that she s gone. reporter: gone in the direction of mcdonald avenue and 23rd street, notorious for drug and sex trafficking. and no place for an 8th grader alone. whatever it is she thinks she s going to be in trouble for, it s nothing compared to what could happen out in the streets. i think she s a good girl. maybe a little bit naive and that s even more concerning for us. reporter: with their son translating, the padillas say jessica is the middle of 5 child
remains a mystery, but one day after her funeral her parents made it clear. they won t stop their quest for justice until her killer is behind bars. eyewitness news reporter kemberly richardson is in howard beach. reporter: she took off her sunglasses and cathy vetrano delivered a blistering message that made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up directed at whoever killed her daughter karina. the gist? you can run, but you cannot hide. to address the coward. reporter: whoever killed her daughter karina for the first time since the brutal murder, the vetranos spoke with reporters outside of their home, . karina just 30 years old went for a job in spring creek park. when she didn t return home, her father got worried, called police and with detectives tall grass. the avid runner tried to fight off her attacker, but was strangled, severely beaten and assaulted. it s been an around the clock operation with detectives trying to track down the suspect. with nerves of s
daughter s life short. good evening. thanks for joining us. i m jessica more. a queen s mother is standing up to a fugitive using words like pathetic, puny, and week. her 30-year-old daughter was laid to rest on saturday and today she called on the killer to come forward. cbs2 s steve langford is live in howard beach with new information from the victims family. steve? reporter: a serious deployment of police personnel at the scene of the crime just a half-mile from the vetrano home where the family offered a support and appreciation for the police and unmitigated rage for the killer. i m going to address the coward. reporter: cathy vetrano has a few things she wants her daughter s killer to know in no uncertain terms. whoever it was who sexually assaulted and strangled 30-year- old karina vetrano, who police say fought back ferociously against her attacker. be reckoned with. and i guarantee you, i guarantee you, you mother [ bleep ], that you will be reckoning with tha
oakwood street this is norris town. it is wednesday night and the big story on action news tonight is hit and run tonight and mercifully the boy is apparently going to be okay. but police want to find the driver who is still out there somewhere. action news reporter dann cuellar is live at norris town police. dann what are the details? what are police saying about this? reporter: well, jim, and the latest word we re get something that the 6-year-old boy that was struck is in stable condition over at children s hospital in philadelphia. meanwhile, the search goes on for the hit-and-run driver. surveillance cameras captured the hit-and-run accident just before 4:00 in the 1200 block of oakwood. incredibly, seconds after the collision, the driver is seen backing and up speeding off into an alley. as soon as he drove past him and he just pulled over to the side of the street, didn t stop or anything, slammed his car into reverse. i m surprised he didn t run the kid over t
so you don t have to stop., tylenol® 8hr arthritis pain has two layers of pain relief. the first is fast. the second lasts all day. we give you your day back. what you do with it is up to you. tylenol®. the surveillance video shows the scary moment of impact. a car hits a 6-year-old boy, then backs up to take a look and takes off. it happened in the 1200 block of oakwood street this is norris town. it is wednesday night and the big story on action news tonight is hit and run tonight and mercifully the boy is apparently going to be okay. but police want to find the driver who is still out there somewhere. action news reporter dann cuellar is live at norris town police. dann what are the details? what are police saying about this? reporter: well, jim, and the latest word we re get something that the 6-year-old boy that was struck is in stable condition over at children s hospital in philadelphia. meanwhile, the search goes on for the hit-and-run driver. surveillance c