A 20-year-old man ran over a mother and her two children with his vehicle when they tried to cross Tornquist Street at the height of José Hernández in the town Altos de LaferrereBuenos Aires party of La Matanza.
The incident occurred this Sunday, the day Father’s Day was celebrated, around 8 in the morning when the family was going to an Evangelical Church. On the way she was hit by the vehicle driven by Lucas Rodrigo Aguirre20 years old, who after the fact fled.
However, the security cameras of the place, located very close to the border with Gregorio de Laferrere, recorded what happened and in them the vehicle and its license plate could be identified. Hours later he was arrested at his house, a few meters from where the accident occurred, but he refused to testify.
The victims were identified as Grace Sanchez48, and her two children, Christian of 24, and Stephen Bogado, 26. According to reports, the woman and the youngest of the children remain hospitalized in a pharmacologically induced coma. The boy suffered brain mass loss and is in critical condition.
At the moment it is known that Aguirre took the vehicle nissan sentra from his father and investigators are trying to determine if he has a driver’s license while awaiting the results of blood tests to determine if he was intoxicated or drug addicted.
The case is in charge of the prosecutor Matías Folino of the Functional Instruction Unit No. 3 decentralized organization of Laferrere, who charged the young man with the crime of “culpable injuries aggravated by reckless, negligent and illegal driving and for having fled and not helping the victims”.