Last Updated on September 30, 2017 by CCAR Staff
A 69-year-old man killed in a hit-and-run in Fontana on Monday, Sept. 25, has been identified as Robert Alva.
“My dad was a great dad,” said Debbie Alva. “He was very caring and funny. We laughed a lot. He loved his family and nothing meant more to him. He was a generous fun-loving man.”
A witness reported that Alva was crossing Foothill Boulevard at Almeria Avenue about 11:50 p.m. and was struck by an eastbound vehicle, according to a Fontana police news release.
Police were still looking Saturday for a dark four-door sedan, possibly a Toyota with front-end damage, and Debbie Alva is pleading for the person responsible to turn themselves in.
She remembered how her father loved to make his five children laugh by playing little pretend games with the siblings.
“He was always trying to lighten any mood or just make all of us laugh just because,” she recalled of the Vietnam veteran who was in the 101st Airborne Division.
He was on his way to visit his niece the night of the fatal crash, she said.
“The one memory that keeps playing in my head is how he used to sing to me with his fake microphone in his hand to so many songs like ‘You Are So Beautiful.’”
