LOUISVILLE, KY. (WDRB) -- Metro Police are still looking for the person who was behind the wheel during a fatal hit-and-run accident last week.
The victim was 33-year-old Kristopher Caudill.
On Sunday, family and friends gathered at Shelby Park to remember Caudill, who died after being struck by a car in Fern Creek on March 12. They also asked anyone with information about the hit-and-run to come forward.
"I found out Tuesday night, late Tuesday night," says Caudill's cousin, Ryan Hardin.
That was the reason for all of the long faces at Shelby Park on a cold, wet Sunday afternoon.
Hardin says, "I was contacted and told that I was his only local relative and that I had to go to the morgue."
Plenty of friends and family members showed up for Caudill's vigil on Sunday.
Hardin says, "And even though Kris was homeless, it was...he has got plenty of people out here that love him and care about him."
Ironically, it was just this past summer when WDRB News talked Caudill on camera.
Kristopher Caudill told us, "People think it's easy; it's really hard."
We were working on a story about a proposed ordinance putting restrictions on panhandling.
Caudill says, "It don't bother me really; I'm going to still come out here."
Right now, police don't know why Caudill was in the area, but do know whoever hit him didn't stop. And that's why his loved ones are talking.
"Not having no closure with the situation, not knowing -- you know this person could do that to somebody else; that really is unsettling," says Hardin.
Police believe the suspect may have been driving a dark colored Ford F-150 or Ford Ranger pickup truck with front end damage.
Hardin says, "I'm glad that they have a starting point to go off of and I just hope that with everybody working together that they can bring this person to justice."
During our interview, Caudill held a sign that read "Homeless, need help -- Thank you, God Bless. But he also admitted he had made mistakes.
"Whether somebody is upper-class, or middle-class or lower-class, we're all people and we all have the same rights."
Friends and family members say he still deserves justice.
Kristopher Caudill leaves behind two young sons.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the LMPD tipline at 574-LMPD.
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