Loved Ones Seek Answers After Road Crew Worker’s Hit-and-Run Death

The loved ones of a man killed in a hit-and-run along a Virginia highway last month is desperate for answers.

Jonathan Franzell, a 32-year-old member of a road construction crew, was trying to help after a crash on Interstate 66 when a car hit him and kept going, Virginia State Police says.

“It’s been hard; it’s been really hard,” said his girlfriend, Jessica Pullen, fighting tears. “I miss him. I get off of work and I come home and I think he’s going to be here, and he’s not.”

She describes Franzell as a godsend, a devoted father, kind and loving.

“He had a smile that was out of this world, and his heart was huge,” she said. “He would do anything for you.”

Virginia State Police says Franzell was working on I-66 East Dec. 8 when he noticed a crash near Exit 60 just before 1 a.m.

He was trying to help one of the drivers involved in that crash when a maroon car went through the work zone, striking Franzell and taking off, investigators say. Franzell died at the scene.

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