Photo: Jorge Alberto Neri Fundraiser/Facebook
Police are searching for the driver of a black pickup truck who allegedly struck and killed a 3-year-old boy in a Dallas parking lot Saturday in front of his siblings and grandparents before speeding away from the scene.
The driver did not stop and left the scene, police said.
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The family told police that the driver hit the child, slowed down andthen struck him a second timeas he raced from the scene, local station KFDX/KJTL reports.
“It’s heartbreaking,” Det. Casey Clark of the Dallas Police Department said during a press conference. “I’m a dad, so it’s every parent’s worst nightmare.”
Ramon Garcia-Ruiz, 24.Dallas Police Department
On Monday night, police found the truck parked on a side street in Irving, police said in an updated statement.
Its rear license plate had been removed, local station CBS 11 reports.
The truck was found halfway between the accident scene and the home of Garcia-Ruiz, CBS 11 reports.
Aguayo and her children had traveled to Dallas to spend the weekend with family, she told CBS 11.
The mom was with her sister when Jorge was killed, CBS 11 reports.
“He had a heart of gold,” Aguayo told the station.
Jorge Neri, 3.Jorge Alberto Neri Fundraiser/Facebook
The truck is described as a black Chevrolet Silverado LTZ with TX license plate LCM-2124, police said. It was last seen leaving the strip mall parking lot and heading northbound on Webb Chapel Extension Road towards Interstate 35-E.
source: people.com
