Shea Shaw was 15 when a driver hit her near Camden and Bascom avenues.
SAN JOSE — Police are reopening
because a former Los Gatos High School student died a decade after a driver hit her at an intersection near Cambrian Park and left her with debilitating injuries, authorities said.Shea Shaw, a Campbell resident who was then 15, was with her boyfriend around 1:10 a.m. Jan. 8, 2011 at the intersection of Camden and Bascom avenues when she was hit by a motorist traveling east on Camden in a gray or silver early-2000s sedan, according to San Jose police. The driver fled.
The only video of the collision was grainy surveillance footage from a nearby gas station, and the case has remained unsolved. San Jose police said in light of her death, “the hit and run investigation will be re-opened in an effort to generate leads.” Her father told this news organization in 2011 that his daughter and her boyfriend had just left a party and were acting playfully in a grassy area when she ran out ahead of the boyfriend and the car hit her.emerged in the wake of the collision, which left Shaw with serious head and internal injuries and broken bones. She was a popular student at Los Gatos High known for her exuberant personality, and was a cheerleader for the school the year before the collision.
The collision initially left Shaw in a coma, but her mother, Cari Shaw, told this news organization that she retained the capacity to respond to her. On April 19, while in hospice care, Shaw died.
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