CINCINNATI —

A West Price Hill family wants answers after a man was killed in a hit-and-run crash early Thanksgiving morning.

Relatives told WLWT news that 30-year-old Jerry Griffin Jr. died when a Ford Escape SUV slammed into his Acura, and later ran from the scene on foot. Advertisement

“This is just so devastating,” Jennifer Jones, Griffin’s aunt, said as family members returned to the site of the crash for a balloon release Friday evening. “You crushed a whole family. My niece doesn’t have her father anymore.”

Griffin’s father, Jerry Griffin Sr., described his son as a devoted parent and an ambitious young entrepreneur.

“He was a loving father, he was working for himself,” he said. “He’s a good, loving guy.”

Griffin leaves behind a 10-year-old daughter, whose mother, Layshawnda

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