Tukwila hit-and-run victim identified

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TUKWILA, Wash. — Jeff Edwards has worked for a year on Tukwila International Boulevard.

"Looks like he swerved right into him and swerved right back," he said.

Edwards is talking about video Tukwila police released Monday in hopes of identifying the person who plowed into 26-year-old Cody Breon.

"A first, the question I had was, did he know?" Edwards was asked.

"How can you hit somebody and not know?" he asked. "But you never know."

The accident happened in the 11100 Tukwila International Boulevard.  If you look closely, you can see the driver leave the roadway.

He swerves as though trying to avoid something or someone. Then he returns to the roadway and drives off.  It was 2:24 a.m. Easter Sunday.

Later that day, Sergeant Mike Murphy told us that other drivers may not have seen the collision. A passerby discovered Breon two full hours later and called 911.

"So we came out, with the Fire Department," Murphy said. "And found this poor man was stuck partially underneath the fence. And he had severe injuries. And it was apparent pretty quick that he had been (struck) by a car."

Since Sunday, Tukwila police say they have concluded it is very likely that the car in the video is a silver, 2015 Toyota RAV4.

Edwards says this is always a busy roadway.  If he were to walk here, as Breon was doing "I'd be way farther over, if I was to be safe, yeah."

"Because it's not really a safe road for walking?" he was asked.

"No," said Edwards. "It looks almost like a driving lane."

On his Facebook page, Cody Breon is described as a senior field scientist for Horizon Engineering in Auburn.  But he is also a son, a brother and a friend.

Now his family members are asking anyone who knows anything about this collision, or about this driver, to call Tukwila police.