Six months and $10,000 later, family still doesn't know who struck ...

Roger Bryant was killed on a dark April morning while trying to get home from the hospital. (Courtesy of family)

Despite a six-month investigation and a substantial reward, still no one seems to know who hit and killed a schizophrenic man trying to get home from Methodist Dallas Medical Center.

Having been ambulanced to the hospital overnight for a stomach ache, 54-year-old Roger Bryant was released early on the morning of April 3 ? several hours before a massive cluster of tornadoes descended on North Texas.

Family tells me the hospital had been trying to get Bryant a taxi voucher so he could get home to his 97-year-old father. Bryant may have got impatient. According to his family, he left the hospital with no ride home and walked down the block to a 7-Eleven at Zang and Colorado. A Big Gulp was the last thing he ever bought.

Bryant had physical illnesses besides the schizophrenia. He walked very slowly and may have been confused that morning. His family tells me a surveillance camera filmed him ambling his way across the 100 block of East Colorado about 5:50 a.m ? but there?s no footage of the vehicle that struck him there.

A woman came across Bryant not long afterwards, laying in the left-hand turn lane, and called 911. An ambulance took him back to Methodist, where he lay in a coma for 10 days before dying.

Bryant?s death didn?t get much coverage at the time, with the tornadoes and their aftermath consuming media coverage. Last month, his family increased the reward for information leading to an arrest to $10,000 ? but they still know nothing.

Meanwhile, Bryant?s father ? who survived a POW camp in WW2 but now has Alzheimer?s ? has moved to an assisted-living center in his son?s absence.

A relative who asked not to be named tells me that father and son both needed help in life, but Bryant ?was kind of his dad?s memory.?

If you know anything about the death of Roger Bryant, you can call Dallas police at 214-670-5818 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 214-373-TIPS.

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Source: http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2012/09/six-months-and-10000-later-family-still-doesnt-know-who-struck-and-killed-schizophrenic-man-leaving-methodist-dallas.html/

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