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A photograph of Harison Long-Randall on his mother's phone in Grass Valley on Tuesday afternoon. July 31, 2012. Harison Long-Randall, 21, died Sunday as a result of a hit and run in Carmichael. His family spoke to The Bee for the first time since his death. -
Gail Randell rubs the shoulders of her daughter Emma, twin of her son Harison, at the family home in Grass Valley on Tuesday, July 31, 2012. Harison Long-Randall, 21, died Sunday as a result of a hit and run in Carmichael. His family spoke to The Bee for the first time since his death. At left is Ashley Rich, 25, friend of Emma and Harison. -
Chris Randell talks about his son Harison from the family home in Grass Valley on Tuesday afternoon. Harison Long-Randall, 21, died Sunday as a result of a hit and run in Carmichael. His family spoke to The Bee for the first time since his death. -
Gail Randell reflects before talking about her son Harison from the family home in Grass Valley on Tuesday, July 31, 2012. Harison Long-Randall, 21, died Sunday as a result of a hit and run in Carmichael. His family spoke to The Bee for the first time since his death. -
A photograph of Harison Long-Randall on his mother's phone in Grass Valley on Tuesday afternoon. July 31, 2012. Harison Long-Randall, 21, died Sunday as a result of a hit and run in Carmichael. His family spoke to The Bee for the first time since his death. -
Photographs of Harison Long-Randall as a young boy sat on the kitchen table in the Randall home in Grass Valley on Tuesday afternoon. Harison Long-Randall, 21, died Sunday as a result of a hit and run in Carmichael. His family spoke to The Bee for the first time since his death. -
Photographs of Harison Long-Randall as a young boy sat on the kitchen table in the Randall home in Grass Valley on Tuesday afternoon. Harison Long-Randall, 21, died Sunday as a result of a hit and run in Carmichael. His family spoke to The Bee for the first time since his death. -
"I can't believe I was hit by a car," said an emotional Gemily West, of Carmichael, as she took a break outdoors while holding a stuffed dog her mother gave her. "I cry every day," she said as she reminisced about her four dogs who were killed in the hit and run on July 17, 2012. She and her boyfriend, Harison Long-Randall, 21, were walking the dogs, Bindie, Evie, Winry and Zury, when they were hit. Long-Randall remains hospitalized with a severed leg. Paul William Walden, 31, was charged with driving on a suspended license and driving under the influence. He also faces two felony counts of hit-and-run and four felony counts of cruelty to animals. He is being held in Sacramento County jail in lieu of $135,000 bail. Photo taken July 24, 2012 in Carmichael, California. -
"You have to cry and let it out," says niece Brooke West, 16, as she hugs Gemily West, 23, who was taking a break outside with her severely injured leg. Gemily was the victim of a hit and run car accident on July 17, 2012, as she and her boyfriend, Harison Long-Randall, 21, walked her four Australian cattle dogs Bindie, Evie, Winry and Zury. All four dogs who were killed. Long-Randall remains hospitalized with a severed leg. Photo taken July 24, 2012 in Carmichael, California. -
Gemily West, 23, of Carmichael opens up a package of gifts from the Cesar Millan of television show The Dog Whisperer, at her home in Sacramento. West was the victim of a hit and run car accident as she and her boyfriend, Harison Long-Randall, 21, walked her four Australian cattle dogs Bindie, Evie, Winry and Zury. All four dogs who were killed. Long-Randall remains hospitalized with a severed leg. Photo taken July 24, 2012 in Carmichael, California. -
Gemily West's senior high school picture in 2007, with Winry, one of her four dogs killed in the hit and run on July 17, 2012 in Carmichael, Calif. -
Paul William Walden, 31, charged in Carmichael hit and run that killed four dogs, injured two people in Sacramento, Calif., July 23, 2012. Walden, who had been arrested three times previously on driving under the influence charges, faces felony counts of hit and run, cruelty to animals and misdemeanor counts of DUI and driving on a suspended license. He was being held on $135,000 bail until today, when that was switched to no bail because he is alleged to have violated his probation in a prior case. -
Father Chris Randall, left, and sister Marybeth Randall, center, of Harison sit in courtroom with Trevor West, right, brother of Gemily West, waiting for hearing to begin for Paul William Walden, 31, charged in Carmichael hit and run that killed four dogs, injured two people in Sacramento, Calif., July 23, 2012. Paul William Walden, 31, stood stone-faced in the cell inside a courtroom at the Sacramento County Jail, never once turning to look at the families of 23-year-old Gemily West or 21-year-old Harison Long-Randall. -
Paul William Walden, 31, charged in Carmichael hit and run that killed four dogs, injured two people in Sacramento, Calif., July 23, 2012. Walden, who had been arrested three times previously on driving under the influence charges, faces felony counts of hit and run, cruelty to animals and misdemeanor counts of DUI and driving on a suspended license. He was being held on $135,000 bail until today, when that was switched to no bail because he is alleged to have violated his probation in a prior case. -
"All cowards go to a corner," Chris Randall, Harison's father, said after the hearing in Sacramento, Calif., July 23, 2012. Paul William Walden, 31, stood stone-faced in the cell inside a courtroom at the Sacramento County Jail, never once turning to look at the families of 23-year-old Gemily West or 21-year-old Harison Long-Randall. -
Suspect Paul William Walden has a long history of drunken-driving and other arrests. -
"He was basically ripped in half," Chris Randall, center, father of hit-run victim Harison Long-Randall, said of his son Thursday. -
Katie Burkett, Jessica Burkett , mom, Sara Burkett and Vanessa Logsdon gather at the location their friend Gemily West, her boy friend and her four dogs, were run over by a hit and run driver walking in the cross walk at Engle Road and Garfield Ave in Carmichael, Calif., July 17, 2012. -
Lilleah West family gathered Gemily West's shoe and the dog leash from the accident scene where Gemily, her boy friend and her four dogs, were run over by a hit and run driver walking in the cross walk at Engle Road and Garfield Ave in Carmichael, Calif., July 17, 2012. -
Memorial of flowers where a hit and run driver mowed down two people and four dogs as they were in a cross walk at Engle Road and Garfield Ave in Carmichael, Calif., July 17, 2012. -
Vanessa Logsdon and Katie Burkett, facing camera, hug at the location that Gemily West, her boy friend and her four dogs, were run over by a hit and run driver walking in the cross walk at Engle Road and Garfield Ave in Carmichael, Calif., July 17, 2012. -
Friends of Gemily West, gather at the location she, her boy friend and her four dogs, were run over by a hit and run driver walking in the cross walk at Engle Road and Garfield Ave in Carmichael, Calif., July 17, 2012. -
(l-r) Zury, Winry, Evie and Bindie were killed Monday night, July 16, when a car heading southbound on Garfield first knocked down a stop sign and continued through the intersection. The car then hit the two dog walkers and the dogs. The CHP is looking for a 1986 or 1987 Nissan Maxima or Stanza that investigators believe is a metallic light brown color. -
Four dogs were killed Monday night, July 16, when a car heading southbound on Garfield first knocked down a stop sign and continued through the intersection. The car then hit the two dog walkers and the dogs. The CHP is looking for a 1986 or 1987 Nissan Maxima or Stanza that investigators believe is a metallic light brown color.
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