Provided are engineered cells fused with platelet membrane vesicles and capable of specifically targeting a subendothelial site of vascular injury. Also provided are methods of generating a modified cell or extracellular vesicle fused with platelet membrane vesicles or fragments thereof. Further provided are methods for using these engineered cells and vesicles for the treatment of injured tissue accompanied by vascular injury by engraftment with modified cells fused with platelet membrane vesicles. Cells fused with the platelet vesicles can be engineered stem cells such as cardiac or mesenchymal stem cells; the extracellular vesicles fused with the platelet vesicles can be exosomes such as exosomes derived from cardiac or mesenchymal stem cells. The use of the platelet vesicles for targeting sites of vascular injury may also be usefully applied to engineering cells and exosomes that have therapeutic activity for the treatment of vascular injury.