Twice-deported
man allegedly on drugs kills Texas girl, 17, in crash, cops say, by Kathleen
Joyce, 5/31/18, Fox News
A man who had been deported twice is
behind bars after crashing his vehicle into another car while on drugs, killing
a Texas teenager who was on her way to the movies with her family.
Edy Lopez-Hernandez, 27, was charged
with “murder, intoxication assault and failure to stop and render aid in
connection with the crash” after he crashed into the vehicle carrying 17-year-old
Britney Baez and her family on Saturday.
Houston
Police Department said Lopez-Hernandez fled the scene of the crash with his
2-year-old son, who was in the car. A witness stopped Lopez-Hernandez and told
him to return to the crash scene, KTRK reported.
Baez’s sister, Nicole
Baez, told KTRK that she was in the
backseat with her sister when a car slammed into the rear of the vehicle they
were traveling in.
"We were on the way
and we just stopped at that light," Nicole Baez recalled. "I just
remember sitting down on the sidewalk, my mom was still screaming my sister's
name. I can hear my dad asking for water. I could sort of see people around me,
that's when my arm started killing me," she continued. Their father was
critically injured in the collision and was in a hospital’s intensive care
unit.
Police said
Lopez-Hernandez was detained and transported to a hospital once he returned to
the scene of the crash. At the hospital investigators determined he was
“under the influence of narcotics.” His toddler son was also taken to a
hospital for treatment.
A law enforcement told
KTRK that Lopez-Hernandez appeared to be driving at 70 mph at the time of the
crash. Records showed the he had been deported two times.
A law enforcement told
KTRK that Lopez-Hernandez appeared to be driving at 70 mph at the time of the
crash. Records showed the he had been deported two times.
Baez’s family has set up
a GoFundMe to help pay for
funeral costs.
"We're going to
always think of you and you're going to always be in our hearts," Baez’s
cousin, Nancy Gomez, told KTRK.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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