An Apple Valley man suspected of a hit-and-run off-road automobile crash that left two kids lifeless has been arrested.
Edgar Ivan Galindo Diaz, 35, turned himself in to the California Freeway Patrol’s Victorville workplace after authorities issued a warrant for his arrest, in keeping with the Victorville Every day Press.
When contacted by The Instances on Tuesday, a CHP Inland Division worker stated nobody was out there to offer info on Galindo or his arrest.
Jail information present he was booked at 1:44 p.m. on suspicion of hit-and-run inflicting damage or demise.
Christina “Tina” Fowl, 11, and her pal Jacob Martinez, 12, have been killed within the July 2 crash.
Tina and Jacob have been celebrating the Fourth of July weekend with their households at an Inland Empire campground. They have been using a small ATV about 9 p.m. after they have been struck on Stoddard Wells Street by a bigger Polaris off-road automobile, authorities stated. The automobile fled the scene after the crash.
A bystander discovered the youngsters within the Stoddard Valley Off-Freeway Automobile Space, the CHP stated in a previous information launch. The 53,000-acre recreation space is managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Administration.
Jacob was pronounced lifeless on the scene. Tina was discovered with a number of damaged bones and a severed spinal wire.
She was taken to an space hospital by paramedics earlier than being airlifted to Loma Linda College Medical Heart, the place she was declared brain-dead and faraway from life help July 6.
Based mostly on wreckage on the scene, investigators believed the suspect’s automobile was a shiny orange 2021 Polaris RZR Turbo S or Turbo S4, in keeping with the CHP.
Authorities discovered the Polaris at Galindo’s property in Apple Valley, in keeping with KTLA-TV Channel 5.
On a GoFundMe web page for Tina organized by Ernie and Felicia Nunez, organizers stated, “Tina has grown her pair of wings to hitch her Grandma and Grandpa in Heaven, the place she is pain-free.”
Anybody with info relating to the lethal crash is requested to name CHP Officer Cesar Ramos on the Victorville workplace at (760) 241-1186.
