Shawn Jordan, a soft-spoken musician who loved purple nail polish and his black cat, Razzle, died Thursday after a hit-and-run crash on a North Highlands road with no sidewalk, family said. He was 18. The fatal crash occurred five days earlier, just after 8 p.
m. June 15 on Walerga Road. Jordan was walking home and was on the north end of the overpass that crosses Roseville Road, according to family members.
The teenager slipped into a coma the next day and later died of his injuries in the hospital. One of his aunts, Liz Ames, said a witness saw a light green Toyota Prius drive away from the scene. “Our family’s grieving,” she said.
“We want some kind of justice. It’s not gonna make him come back, but we want justice.” The California Highway Patrol is investigating the fatality.
A spokesperson for the CHP’s North Sacramento office asked anyone with information about the incident to call 916-348-2300. A homeless man, Dave, heard the crash, ran to Jordan’s side and called paramedics, Ames said. Jordan had spent the day with his partner.
The pair went to lunch and shopped for clothes. “They had, like,” Ames started to cry, “a really nice day together.” Jordan was headed back to his father’s house, where he lived part-time with Razzle the cat.
“He was minutes away from home when this happened,” Ames said. “He was almost home.” ‘A quiet soul’ Shawn Jordan was born Dec.
12, 2005, to Marie Martinez and Seth Jordan, at Mercy San Juan Hospital. He.
