A year ago, on the night of Aug. 9, a beloved man was hit and killed while walking in Poulsbo.
No one has been arrested since and now there’s a $25,000 reward for information.
One year later, Vince Giamona, 36, was honored for the way he lived—with happiness, love, and kindness.
His mom, dad, sister, fiancé and friends were joined by the community for a vigil in Poulsbo.
“Everything about him was just so much joy and love, and it’s so hard to have that hole now, empty,” said Vince’s fiancé, Andrew Padula.
“He was just an amazing human being, and we miss him,” said Vince’s father Les Giamona.
“Vince was so full of life, he loved everybody, I mean he knew everybody in this town in the short amount of time he lived here,” said his mother, Ginger Gothro. “He would want us to be happy and carry on for him and for us.”
Though his family, fiancé and friends celebrate his life, they carry enormous pain at how the 36-year-old was taken from them—in a hit-and-run crash.
“I want them to be caught and I want them to be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” said Les Giamona.
Last year, Vince went out for a walk along the 15700 block of Clear Creek Road—not too far from the home he shared with his fiancé Andrew.
Deputies say a driver hit him, dragged him 150 feet, then left him for dead.
Vince’s body was found on the road.
“How do you that? Walk away from a human being. I can’t imagine doing that to an animal,” said Ginger Gothro.
Deputies say parts recovered from the scene helped identify the car as a possible dark-colored 2007-2012 Nissan Sentra.
But no one has been caught.
“We want to grieve, we want to mourn, but it still feels like we’re being held at the beginning because no one’s been held accountable yet,” said Andrew Padula. “I want whoever did this to do the right thing and turn themself in, I want them to give us a little bit of closure so that we can grieve and mourn his loss because it still feels like we can’t move from that chapter.”
They hope a $25,000 reward will help tug at someone’s heart.
“Do the right thing,” said Les Giamona.
“We still have no answers, that’s all we want, please let us have closure and know that they’re off the streets,” said Ginger Gothro.
Anyone with information on the vehicle can call the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office at 360- 337-4634 or call Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound at 1-800-222-TIPS or they can submit photos and tips at www.P3Tips.com