Make New York Post a Preferred Source The partner of the Alaskan dad who was hit and killed by Hollywood scion Jack Sabàto made a heartbreaking post begging for help finding him hours before being told he was dead.
“Please has anyone seen Carl Tiģluk Simmonds,'” Crystal Tickett begged online at 1:48 p.m. — more than eight hours after police say Simmonds, 42, was hit by the 32-year-old son of actress Virginia Madsen and soap star Antonio Sabàto Jr.
“He left the Alaska Regional Hospital this morning around 5 a.m. Please help be on the lookout for him. I filed [a] missing persons report,” Tickett wrote.
Simmonds was struck around 5:30 a.m., soon after leaving the hospital, according to authorities.
Sabàto later called cops to say he hit “something” that “suddenly appeared in the road” — suggesting he assumed it was an animal — while he was “doing late-night DoorDashing,” according to charging documents obtained by KTUU.
Officials discovered a body in the road about 15 minutes after the crash and declared Simmonds dead at the scene.
Investigators recovered surveillance footage of the collision and tracked the vehicle registration to Sabàto’s home address, where a neighbor told cops he was at work.
Police found his vehicle parked at Sabàto’s workplace around 12:45 p.m. with “fresh damage to the right front corner that was consistent with a pedestrian strike,” according to the charging document. Police obtained a warrant and seized the car.
Sabàto then called police about two hours later, claiming he hit an animal with the SUV and wanted to speak with officers, according to the documents.
He was arrested and charged with leaving the scene of an accident without assisting the injured and leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in injury or death.
Sabàto was arraigned in court Tuesday afternoon at the Anchorage Jail Courtroom, where a judge set his bail at $5,000, according to KTUU.
On Wednesday, Simmonds’ uncle, Issac Simmonds, told The Post that he leaves behind a teenage daughter.
“We’re trying to gather together. With Carl, he has a lot of friends and family. They’re all hanging together,” Isaac said.
