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5-year-old girl injured in hit-and-run outside her Fort Worth home

The suspected vehicle in a hit-and-run that injured a 5-year-old girl Friday.
The suspected vehicle in a hit-and-run that injured a 5-year-old girl Friday. Courtesy of Fort Worth Police Department.

Police are searching for the driver of an SUV that hit a 5-year-old girl in front of her home in northeast Fort Worth last week.

The hit-and-run happened about 6 p.m. Friday in the 9000 block of Riverfalls Drive, according to a police news release. The neighborhood is off Precinct Line Road between Trinity Boulevard and Randol Mill Road.

The suspect’s SUV is believed to be a 2009 Toyota 4-runner, police said.

The girl, Caroline Muckleroy, was taken to Cook Children’s Medical Center, where she was treated for a broken leg, a ruptured spleen and a slight injury, her father told NBC 5. Caroline was released from the hospital Sunday.

Surveillance video captured the incident, and police released a picture of the SUV on Monday.

Anyone with information about the driver of the SUV is asked to call police at 817-392-4886.

This story was originally published April 17, 2017 at 5:45 PM with the headline "5-year-old girl injured in hit-and-run outside her Fort Worth home."

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