Search underway for driver seen on doorbell video casually dislodging victim from his windshield then driving away

A driver fatally struck a 28-year-old Maryland man northeast of Washington, D.C., over the weekend. A doorbell camera caught the suspect add posthumous insult to injury — casually exiting his car, yanking Franklin Membreno Mendez's body out of his windshield, then driving away.

Price George's County Police Department indicated that the victim was mowed down early Saturday morning.

Investigators determined that Mendez had been involved in an unrelated minor accident in the 8900 block of Annapolis Road. He is believed to have been struck after exiting his car to check the initial damage, becoming "lodged in that car's windshield."

The suspect then drove roughly 2.6 miles with the victim's body dangling out the front window before stopping, smoking a cigarette, then dumping the body.

The resident whose doorbell camera caught the callous act told WTTG-TV, "All his clothes was gone from his waist down and I called the police."

"When we looked at the camera, the camera was showing that he came up in here like four or five in the morning. Like I said, he took his time," said the resident. "That's the reason why I figured that he probably knew the neighborhood. He took his time getting out of the car. He walked around and then he was around there for a couple of minutes. And when he came back, he got in the vehicle, lit a cigarette or whatever, and then he made a U-turn in front of my house."

The resident suggested that the suspect's U-turn may suggest he is a local, granted outsiders might not know that the road leads to a dead-end.

The suspect then speedily fled the scene, driving what is believed to be a 2011-2017 gray Honda Civic with a large white decal on the rear window. Police indicated that extra to a hole in the passenger's side of the windshield, the suspect's car will have damage to the passenger side front bumper and fender.

Officers responded to the 7500 block of Ardwick Ardmore Road for a welfare check around 4:05 a.m. Saturday, finding Mendez's dead on the side of the road.

As the suspect has yet to be found, police have asked those with tips to call the Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit at 301-731-4422.

VIDEO: Victim gets lodged in windshield after hit-and-run in Marylandyoutu.be

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