ROUND ROCK, Texas -- A Central Texas woman is asking for the public's help in finding the driver who hit her son's father and left him to die on the road.
Amir Azad, 25, was walking on the northbound lanes of I-35 in Round Rock near Old Settlers Boulevard just after 5:30 a.m. Sunday when a driver hit him, according to police.
When officers arrived, they found Azad's body lying on the road. The driver who hit him did not stop.
"I'm still letting it sink in. I'm hoping that it would be just a dream, but it's not," Hellen Spears, Azad's ex-girlfriend and the mother of their 2-year-old son, Noah, told KVUE.
The two dated for about five years but broke up four months ago, she said. Spears last heard from Azad the night before he died.
"He was asking me for another chance. I told him, 'Right now, I'm not ready for a relationship. I just want to be parents to Noah. I want to see you grow and change,'" she said. "He never got that message. By the time I sent that message, he was already dead."
Spears said she found out about Azad's death from a friend of his on Facebook.
"I immediately call him and I'm like, 'What's going on?' Well, he's like, 'When's the last time you talked to Amir?' And I was like, 'Just last night. Why? What's going on?' And the first two words he was like, 'He's dead,'" Spears recalled. "I just couldn't hold it in and I just busted into tears."
Neither police nor Spears know why Azad was walking on I-35 early Sunday morning. But she said that's still not a reason for someone to not come forward.
"I could never hit a human. You never know who that was. And they just took away a father from a 2-year-old boy. I just want justice for him," she said. "Noah deserves it. I deserve it. It would really just make me feel so much better."
Round Rock police said they still don't have a description of the car that hit Azad.
They're now requesting dash cam footage from anyone who drove on either side of I-35 in Round Rock between 5 to 7 a.m. Sunday.
You can submit video to Officers Jim Bell and Lauren Weaver. Contact Round Rock Police at 512-218-5515 for any other tips.
"It still feels unreal. We would go days without talking, so that's what this feels like, but this time I know he's not coming back," Spears said. "I just don't know what I'm going to tell Noah."