Redondo Beach police are asking for the public’s help to identify a hit-and-run driver captured on surveillance camera striking a woman and killing her dog as they crossed the intersection of Slauson Lane and Grant Avenue earlier this month.

•VIDEO: Surveillance camera footage of the hit-and-run accident

Lindsay Harrie was about halfway through the crosswalk walking her 6-month-old terrier mix, Kira, at 7 a.m. Dec. 7, when a dark gray sedan making a left turn knocked her to the ground and ran over Kira as it sped away.

Police described the vehicle captured on a neighbor’s security camera as a dark gray 2008 to 2012 model Nissan Altima sedan with tinted windows and “very distinct” black window trimming instead of chrome trimming.

Harrie also suspects the vehicle could have been a 2005 or 2006 Nissan Maxima.

She said no one else was around the normally busy intersection when she realized the sedan was not going to stop for her and Kira when it was their turn to cross.

Harrie slammed her hand on the car’s hood to lessen the impact as it knocked her on her side, sending her glasses flying and her face and knee crashing into the asphalt. Kira was pinned beneath the vehicle.

“In my mind, it didn’t really compute that that car didn’t see us,” Harrie said. She thinks the driver was likely distracted.

For a second, she said, it seemed the vehicle was going to stop.

“I looked up waiting for them come out of the car and they just pressed the gas and ran over Kira a second time,” Harrie said. “That’s when I think she really got hit the worst.”

She watched the vehicle slow down further down the street, as if the driver was looking at her in the rear view window, but it sped off again.

Harrie turned and saw a lifeless Kira covered in blood. In a state of shock, she processed the fact that she was hit by a car and lost her beloved puppy in the same instant.

Passersby came to her aid and her husband, Steve, could hear her screaming from down the street.

Harrie said a crossing guard and a fireman at the nearby station reported seeing a similar vehicle speeding on Grant Avenue around the time of the crash.

Because the sedan had tinted windows, police are unable to describe the suspect on the video. A license plate was not observed.

Harrie wore a knee brace and walked on crutches for about a week-and-a-half.

She and her husband had adopted Kira from the spcaLA South Bay Pet Adoption Center in Hawthorne when they were newlyweds and even gave their puppy her own Instagram account.

“She was like our baby,” Harrie said. “We still miss her a lot and that week was just a roller coaster of emotions for me and my husband.”

She thanked the community for its support. The couple received kind notes and flowers left at a vigil for Kira on the street corner.

Recently, they returned to the spcaLA and connected with the foster mom who cared for Kira.

“We had a big circle together crying and it gave us closure having an experience with someone who had a connection with her as well,” Harrie said.

She and her husband left with another 4-month-old terrier mix, naming her Luna because it was the last new moon of the year.

She made a plea for anyone to come forward with information about the driver.

“It’s unsafe for this person to be driving in our community. We want to raise awareness that you can’t be driving thinking nothing else is there,” Harrie said, noting that a park at the intersection is often full of dog walkers and children playing sports. “You can’t think you’re the only person in the world.”

Harrie asked that anyone looking for a place to make a donation this holiday season consider the South Bay spcaLA.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Redondo Beach Traffic Investigator William Turner at 310-318-0621.