Waukesha hit-and-run injures boy, woman sentenced
Myrrh Hamishiach
WAUKESHA, Wis. - A Milwaukee woman will spend time behind bars for a Waukesha hit-and-run that injured a 7-year-old boy last year.
Court records show 54-year-old Myrrh Hamishiach pleaded guilty to misdemeanor obstruction and no contest to felony hit-and-run. She was sentenced on Friday to nine months in the Waukesha County Jail.
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Case details
The backstory:
The hit-and-run happened in May 2024. Waukesha police said a delivery driver hit the 7-year-old boy near Bel-Ayr Drive and Easy Street and took off.
Prosecutors said the boy suffered road rash and scrapes. FOX6 News spoke with the boy's aunt in July 2024; she said her nephew was doing OK.
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Investigators said Hamischiach had borrowed someone else's SUV to make a GrubHub delivery. They said when she hit the boy, he rolled up onto the hood.
Cellphone records showed Hamischiach went from the intersection of the crash to a bar a mile away. There, prosecutors said she got another person to drive the SUV back to the owner.
A day later, police said the vehicle was spotted on surveillance video at a car wash.
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Police were able to find surveillance video from the neighborhood that showed the SUV leave the area. They connected the vehicle in the video to Hamishiach because of its roof racks and a distinct purple camouflage shirt the driver was wearing.
A court commissioner said Hamishiach's license was revoked at the time of the hit-and-run due to a previous OWI conviction.
Police also said Hamishiach searched for "Waukesha police reports today" and "car crashes in the last 24 hours near me" on her phone.
The Source: The information in this report is from the Waukesha County District Attorney's Office and Wisconsin Circuit Court.