The parents of a woman struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in San Francisco on New Year’s Eve say they have “feelings of hatred” toward the perpetrator but that such emotions “won’t bring our daughter back.”
Hiroko and Tsueno Abe, the parents of 27-year-old Hanako Abe, said in a statement that they “never expected this kind of sadness in our lives.”
The death of their daughter, one of two pedestrians killed by a suspect on parole for robbery, should be, they said, a “critical lesson to create a system to prevent such disastrous incidents from happening.”
In a statement released on social media, the Abes, of Fukushima, Japan, said their daughter “worked hard to be able to study and get a job in America” and that “living abroad was her dream.”
“The accident was disastrous,” they wrote. “Did the justice system correctly prove that the (suspect) was ready before letting him back into society?”
Hanako Abe and Elizabeth Platt, 60, were killed at Second and Mission streets after being hit by a stolen car driven by Troy McAlister, 45, who was believed to be intoxicated, police said. After his parole for burglary in April, McAlister was arrested several times on suspicion of car theft, possession of burglary tools and parole violation, but was not charged and remained free. Critics of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin have accused him of failing to hold McAlister accountable.
Abe, a computer data and real estate analyst who graduated from the University of Central Arkansas before coming to San Francisco in 2018, died in a local hospital shortly after being struck.
Her friends organized an online fundraising drive to raise $60,000 to send her body back to Japan and cover funeral costs. By Tuesday, the campaign had collected nearly twice that amount.
Sari Nakaya, one of Abe’s friends who organized the drive, said the extra funds would be given to her family, who had been receiving financial support from their daughter and her employment in the U.S.
“Hanako embodied resilience, bravery, and hope,” Nakaya said. “Throughout the past year, in the midst of COVID-19, Hana never stopped smiling and was the most resilient and optimistic person we knew.’’
Steve Rubenstein is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: srubenstein@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @SteveRubeSF
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