Hit-and-run driver kills man and then drives for TWO MILES with victim lodged in his windshield before dumping his body in a quiet residential street

• Killer casually smoked a cigarette as he removed the corpse from his hood and dumped it at the side of a road
• Friends of Franklin Mendez, 28, have set up a gofundme page to help pay for his funeral  

Police in Maryland are hunting for a driver who casually sauntered around his car before dislodging a dead body from the windshield, smoking a cigarette and driving off.

Horrified neighbors called Prince George’s County police shortly before 4am on Saturday when they saw the body of Franklin Mendez lying half naked and dead in a ditch outside their homes in Ardwick Ardmore Road.

Disbelieving officers realized the 28-year-old from New Carrollton had been struck by the car in Annapolis Road earlier that morning and carried two miles along the highway before the driver pulled into the quiet back street.

Ring footage caught the moment the driver stopped outside the 7500 block and residents fear he may be a local.

Undeterred by the bright street lights he took his time removing the wedged body from his battered car before pulling a U-turn and heading on his way with a large hole in the windshield.

Franklin Mendez was carried two miles on the hood of a car after being struck by a hit and run driver near his Maryland home  

Doorcam footage caught the moment the driver pulls up in Ardwick Ardmore Road and dislodges the body from his wind shield

The driver was seemingly undeterred by street lighting and porch lights on the suburban road

Police believe Mendez had been involved in a traffic accident on the 8900 block of Annapolis Road when he was struck by the silver Honda.

They have appealed for help in finding the driver and say his victim was dead by the time they arrived.

‘All his clothes were gone from his waist down,’ said the neighbor whose camera filmed the incident.

‘I called the police and the police came but then when I looked at the camera it showed he took his time, that’s why I think he probably knows the neighborhood,’ she told Fox 5.

‘He took his time getting out the car, he walked around and then he was round there for a couple of minutes and when he came back, he got in the vehicle, lit a cigarette or whatever.

‘And then he made a U-turn in front of my house.’

A massive hole in the wind shield is visible on the Honda Civic as the driver swings away and heads off

Police found Mendez dead on the road when they arrived shortly after 4am on Saturday 

Neighbors fear he chose their road to dispose of his victim because he lives among them

Friends of the El Salvadorean born digital creator have set up a gofundme page to help pay for his funeral.

The car involved in the incident is believed to be a 2011 to 2017 gray Honda Civic with a large white decal across the top of the back window, police said. 

The car will have damage to its passenger side front bumper and fender, and will have a hole in the windshield.

They have asked anyone with information to call the Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit at 301-731-4422. 

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