Woman who survived devastating house fire killed by hit-and-run driver in Queens

A 47-year-old pistillate killed by a hit-and-run driver who smashed into her arsenic she crossed an intersection successful Queens was the subsister of a devastating occurrence that destroyed her location and each of her belongings past year, her household told the Daily News.

Lucia Grant was crossing 150th St. astatine North Conduit Ave., conscionable steps from Baisley Pond Park successful Kew Gardens Hills, astir 6 a.m. Saturday erstwhile a operator slammed into her, constabulary said.

“We went done a batch of trauma arsenic a family. We was coming unneurotic … We was there. We was astir there,” Grant’s devastated girl Chassidy Moore, 26, said successful disbelief. “Honestly, I consciousness it’s surreal. It’s not adding up to me. It feels surreal,” she lamented.

Grant, who worked arsenic a location wellness aide, had been surviving successful a Holiday Inn adjacent the intersection since a occurrence tore done her flat past year, leaving her and household members homeless.

“We each went done a occurrence truthful we had to abstracted arsenic a full family,” Moore said. “Everything got burned up. We mislaid everything.”

“That’s wherefore she was successful the shelter,” Moore said. “The intersection, she was apt leaving her shelter,” and connected her mode to enactment erstwhile she was killed, she added.

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Luci Grant, who worked arsenic a location wellness aide, had been surviving successful a Holiday Inn since a occurrence tore done her flat past year, leaving her and household members homeless. (Obtained by Daily News)

After a hard year, things had been looking up, and Moore said she precocious received an flat voucher and was starting to spell flat hunting.

Mother and girl were readying a associated day enactment for their kids who were adjacent successful age, and were looking guardant to celebrating Thanksgiving together.

“I was looking guardant to it. My son’s day is Dec. 3. My small brother’s day is Dec. 19,” Moore said. “We was readying each of this. We was readying their birthdays. We was trying to marque they day unneurotic due to the fact that they successful the aforesaid month.”

Moore said her ma was “a grandma and a beardown mom. My ma got 13 kids. There’s a batch of us,” she said. Moore said she is the 2nd oldest kid successful the ample family.

Grant’s youngest kid is conscionable 5 years old. She was a grandma to 5 children, Moore said, adding that she and her parent visited each different each Friday.

“I was seeing her connected Fridays with my kids. I was conscionable getting unneurotic with her truthful she could beryllium a grandma and spot the kids. We was conscionable getting better,” Moore said. “Every clip we get together, we had a bully time, honestly. We were ever doing something.

“My ma was a beauteous soul, you know?”

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Lucia Grant was crossing 150th St. astatine North Conduit Ave. successful Kew Gardens Hills astir 6 a.m. Saturday erstwhile a operator slammed into her. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)

Moore learned astir the mishap from her mother’s sister.

“My aunt called maine and honestly, I damn-near fainted,” she said. “\It shattered my full world. I’m inactive mislaid for words. I’m lost.”

“Everybody was crying. Everybody’s going done it close now. Everybody’s emotional. Raging and sadness,” Moore said.

Grant’s patients are besides astatine a nonaccomplishment without her, Moore said.

“She had a batch of patients depending connected her,” Moore explained, “One diligent I know… she been my mom’s diligent going connected 7 years. That diligent close there, she cried connected my telephone past night. She was crying. I had to speech to her to spell to slumber due to the fact that she was crying,” Moore said.

Grant’s younger sister, Chanalylia Grant, 32, was besides stunned astatine the family’s loss. “We’re mourning close now,” she said. “I was with my begetter erstwhile the detectives came” and told them Grant had been killed. “He’s suffering close now.”

“She was a bully parent to her kids. She’s funny. Very outgoing. She loved euphony and dancing. She inspired me,” Grant said astir her older sister.

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Lucia Grant was successful the crosswalk erstwhile she was deed by the motorist, who ne'er stopped, constabulary said. (Obtained by Daily News)

Both Moore and Chanalylia Grant described however cautious the unfortunate was erstwhile crossing the street.

“How tin it beryllium a deed and run? My sister pays precise bully attention. She’s precise observant,” Grant said.

“She was connected a way squad arsenic a teenager. She runs fast. So I inactive can’t representation it happening similar that. A car? You died due to the fact that a car deed you? I’m inactive successful shock,” Grant said.

Lucia Grant was successful the crosswalk erstwhile she was deed by the motorist, who ne'er stopped, constabulary said. There person been nary arrests and an probe is underway, cops said.

“I privation justness truthful she tin slumber astatine rest, successful peace,” the devastated sister said.“If anybody’s seen something, delight accidental something.”