SAN ANTONIO — A new reward is offered after a Good Samaritan died from being run down by a driver on IH-35.
According to police, 46-year-old Arturo Velez Garcia was helping a woman had a blowout along IH-35 and Eisenhauer Road just after midnight.
Garcia saw the woman trying to change her tire decided to pull over to help.
While Garcia was changing the tire, a car traveling southbound on IH-35 hit both the truck driver and the woman on the side of the interstate.
The driver fled the scene.
Garcia was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition. He later died of his injuries The woman was also taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police are still looking for the driver involved in the hit-and-run. Crime Stoppers will pay up to $5,000 for information leading to an arrest.