Authorities investigating a crash that killed a young mother last weekend in Revere, Massachusetts, say the driver has not been charged.
Sofía Mejía Zambrano, 28, of East Boston, was fatally hit on Squire Road around 8:40 p.m. Sunday, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said in a press release Friday.
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The driver stayed at the scene, prosecutors said. No charges have been filed, but the crash remains under investigation.
Family of Mejía, the mother of a 2-year-old boy, tells Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra the crash happened while leaving work at Market Basket.
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The woman's loved ones in Ecuador are fighting to repatriate her body, as she does not have family in the U.S., husband Jipson Gómez said.
"To lose a loved one, especially at such a young age, is a terrible tragedy," Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said in a statement offering sympathies to Mejía's husband and family.