Castro Valley - New details are surfacing about a hit-and-run in Alameda County that sent an older homeless woman to the hospital.Surveillance video showed a man deliberately hitting the woman with his car.The attack happened in the parking lot shared by a church and a supermarket on Grove Way in Castro Valley.Church employees said they've never seen the driver before and they're shocked by what happened.Surveillance video showed the driver of a white Nissan Sentra nearly backing into the woman with a shopping cart in the parking lot.
They exchanged words. Moments later, he circled around, sideswiped her, and knocked her cane out of her hand.Then he drove around again, stopped briefly, backed up and rear ended a parked car.Finally, he appeared to use his car to deliberately hit the woman, causing her to go up the hood and falling to the ground.
The driver took off."It happened way over there. She ended up over here - that's like 30 feet away," said Aaron Horner, director of community outreach with First Presbyterian Church.
He said he witnessed the attack when it happened Saturday shortly before 7:30pm,"Like a car revving, vrroom, vrroom, like he was trying to intimidate somebody."He said the victim is a 77-year-old, hearing impaired homeless woman who attends the church and was walking there to eat a meal that the church serves nightly when she was attacked.Alameda County Sheriff's Office Lt.