An Apple Valley man who turned himself in after an off-road hit-and-run crash that left two kids useless this month has been charged with 4 felonies.
Edgar Ivan Galindo Diaz, 35, faces two counts every of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and hit-and-run leading to loss of life or severe damage, the San Bernardino County district legal professional’s workplace stated Friday.
Galindo turned himself in to the California Freeway Patrol’s Victorville workplace on Tuesday, the regulation enforcement company stated.
He was booked into jail that day, along with his bail set at $200,000, prosecutors stated. Galindo was launched Thursday after posting bail, jail data present.
Together with the felony prices, the district legal professional’s workplace requested a bail assessment when Galindo is arraigned, which is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Christina “Tina” Chicken, 11, and her buddy Jacob Martinez, 12, had been killed within the July 2 crash on the Stoddard Valley Off-Freeway Car Space.
Tina and Jacob had been celebrating the Fourth of July weekend with their households at an Inland Empire campground. They had been driving a small ATV about 9 p.m. once they had been struck on Stoddard Wells Street by a bigger Polaris off-road automobile, authorities stated. The automobile fled the scene after the crash.
Jacob was pronounced useless on the scene. Tina was discovered with a number of damaged bones and a severed spinal twine.
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 assist July 6.
Based mostly on wreckage on the scene, investigators believed the suspect’s automobile was a vibrant orange 2021 Polaris RZR Turbo S or Turbo S4, in keeping with the CHP.
Investigators discovered a 2021 Polaris RZR at Galindo’s residence on the night of July 7, and a warrant was issued for his arrest, the CHP stated.
