THE family of a Queens-based Guyanese woman killed in a hit-and-run issued a heart-felt plea Saturday for the driver to surrender to police. Gillian Hall, 56, formerly of the mining town of Linden and who had two grown daughters, was killed Friday night in Brooklyn while she was on her way to console the family of a friend who had died earlier that day, the family said.
She was run over by an unknown vehicle shortly after 9 p.m. as she crossed the intersection of Flatlands and Utica Aves. in Flatlands.
Hall, who migrated to the United States in 2009 and lived in Jamaica, Queens, died at Brookdale University Hospital.
The driver of the vehicle which as travelling east on Flatlands Avenue, fled the scene.
“This is the most heartless thing to have done to a woman who had such a full, giving heart, to take her away from people that love her,” said Hall’s daughter Neah Persaud, 28, an event planner for a bank. “Please find it in your heart to come forward.”
“For someone to take her so brutally, it hurts,” Neah Persaud, said of the Friday night death of her mother Gillian Hall, a nurse’s assistant from Queens. “Turn yourself in. She has a family that needs some sense of closure.”
“My mother was a gentle, kind and loving woman,” said Persaud. “If she had and you needed, she gave to you. To have her die on the street with nobody there … it’s unthinkable.”
Police Saturday were reviewing video from a closed-circuit camera at a Getty gas station at the intersection in hopes of tracing the car. They also asked anyone with information to call the NYPD Crime Stoppers hotline at (800) 577-TIPS.  ( NY Daily News/NY Post )