An 82-year-old woman was killed Thursday evening in a hit-in-run crash in the Somerton section of Philadelphia, police said.

Yulia Sherman, a mother of two and grandmother of five, was struck as she crossed the 11800 block of Bustleton Avenue around 6 p.m. Thursday.

At Friday's news conference, with police by their side, Sherman's daughter Alla Ingerman and son-in-law Mark Ingerman called on witnesses to come forward with information.

They made their pleas in both English and Russian, since this portion of the Northeast has a large Russian-speaking population.

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