12:37 a.m. EST, December 22, 2011
A woman talking on a cell phone was hit and killed Wednesday as she stepped into the path of a minivan in Deltona, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said.
Shinnique Comer, 26, of Deltona was at Howland and Courtland boulevards when she was hit by the westbound van about 6:20 p.m., investigators said. Witnesses said she was on the phone when she was hit.
Comer was taken to Florida Hospital Fish Memorial in Orange City, where she was pronounced dead about 7 p.m.
The driver of the van, Shivon Walker, 28, of Deltona was not hurt.
According to her Facebook profile, Comer was a nurse at a nursing home and graduated from Daytona State College.
Pedestrian tales from the middle of the road, #6
