The grieving mother of the 21-year-old woman killed by a hit-and-run truck driver last week is speaking out. Roxana Sorina Buta was crossing Broadway at East 14th Street when a dump truck hit her (a witness said Buta had the light) crushing her. Cristina Oprea said, "All I want is justice for my daughter. He hit my daughter and he just kept on driving. Who does something like that? He should give himself up."
According to the Daily News, "Buta, who immigrated from Romania when she was 11, was on her way to her East Harlem apartment after working a waitressing shift at Bar 6 near Union Square when she was mowed down...[at] about 1:30 a.m."
Buta, who was also studying at Hunter College, had recently performed in the off-Broadway play, Him. The writer-director, Clifford Streit, told the News, "A lot of people who came to the play thought she had tremendous potential... She was great-looking, very talented, funny. She absolutely had a career ahead of her."
Yesterday, a group of her friends mourned her death at the scene of the incident. The police are apparently still investigating the crime, which happens more often when the victim dies.
