Daughters plead for public’s help solving fatal Little Village hit-and-run: ‘It’s been so lonely without her’

Carol Cisneros, one of the daughters of Juana Tapia Lopez, holds a photo of her mother during a press conference at West 26th Street and South Drake Avenue in the Little Village neighborhood. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

For the past few weeks, Daisy and Monse Soto had been hopeful that their mom, Juana Tapia Lopez, would get out of the hospital to wake them up in the morning again.

The sound of her making coffee, pancakes and putting on cumbia music served as their 6 a.m. alarm clock until Lopez, 56, was struck last month in a hit-and-run accident.