No arrests have been made in the Tacoma collision that left a 32-year-old woman dead

TACOMA, Wash. — Earlier this month, a 32-year-old woman was killed in a collision while walking her dog in Tacoma, according to Tacoma police.

The victim’s family told KOMO News that there are still many unanswered questions surrounding her death and who may have hit her. No arrests have been made so far.

According to her family, Brittanee Parker was walking her dog on the morning of October 4 when someone fatally struck her.

“Now she’s just gone, and it’s painful for all of us,” said Brandee McLean, Parker’s mother. ‘There’s a big gap, that’s what it is. It’s huge.”

After weeks of investigation, her family could now be getting closer to finding out who may have killed her. Parker’s cause and manner of death are still listed as pending, according to the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office, but Tacoma police said that because of where the victim was found, they are investigating this case as a hit -and-run.

Investigators have now determined that Parker may have been hit by a bus, but have not released any details about how they came to that conclusion. Breelle Buegler was driving near N 11th and NI Streets in Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood when she saw Parker’s lifeless body lying face down in the road.

“I saw something on the road and it took me a minute to realize what I was looking at,” Buegler said. “As soon as I realized it was a human, I noticed there was oncoming traffic, so I blew my horn and had to avoid potentially running over several cars again.”

“She was warm to the touch and she had a very weak pulse when I found her, but she was unconscious and not breathing,” Buegler added.

Parker did not survive and her family told KOMO News that she was walking her dog and had no ID on her, which is partly why police were not notified until a week later. For weeks it was unclear how Parker had died.

“It took us a while to find out exactly what happened to our daughter,” McLean said. Investigators have not released specific details about how they linked the bus to Parker’s death, but the case has been forwarded to Pierce County prosecutors for review.

“The only question from everyone you know is: why? It’s just, you know, and no one’s ever going to get an answer to that question,” McLean said.

“This girl is 6 feet tall, and you can’t miss it,” Buegler added. “You saw the dog and you didn’t see a human, and you knew you had run over something, but you still didn’t stop even after you saw the dog.”