“March 20, 2012 4:20 PM

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia police say a young ballet student, struck by a hit and run driver early Sunday morning, has died.

Staff members at the world-renowned Rock School of Ballet on South Broad Street have identified the victim as 22-year-old Polina Kadiyska, a student from Bulgaria, who played the dew drop fairy in the school’s production of the Nutcracker last Christmas.

Police say she was crossing Broad Street, in a marked crosswalk, with a green light, about 4 a.m., when a teenage driver ran a red light and struck her, then struck three parked cars. They say he and his passenger then abandoned the car — a green Audi — and fled, but were arrested a short time when they returned to get some things out of the car.”

 

Here is the painting I did of Polina while I was working at The Rock School.