The family of Terrance Valdivia is mourning this weekend after losing the 14-year-old in a fatal car crash.
Around 3 a.m on Saturday, police recall a car fleeing from officers on two separate occasions after cutting off a marked police car.
Sometime later, police reported that a car with four passengers had just rammed through a barrier, crashing into a canal and ultimately sinking.
It was the same car as before—the car carrying Valdivia and his three friends. Only one made it out alive.
Magaly Amado, the great-grandmother of Valdivia, can not even begin to make sense of the sudden tragedy, wanting to blame herself.
“If I was a crazy person and giving a bad example, then OK fine, but it is not like that. That’s why it hurts,” Amado said. “He was a good boy.”
Precious Fernandez, the boy’s sister, knew he was out with friends and had to be home by his midnight curfew. She was not expecting to hear that she will never see her brother again.
“I was shook when I got the messages,” she said. She texted her brother at 2 a.m. but didn’t get an answer.
Fernandez also said that she had warned her brother about hanging out “that person,” she refers to him as.
“I told him plenty of times to stop hanging around with that person. He didn’t listen.”
Three people died in the crash. The fourth passenger was found on the barrier and is in stable condition.
