Post by Scumhunter on May 2, 2022 6:32:54 GMT -5
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(Above photo credit: dallasnews.com via Dallas Police Department)
From the Dallas Morning News (dallasnews.conm):
9:04 p.m.: Updated with the suspect’s name.
Dallas police asked for the public’s help finding a man wanted in connection with a fatal wrong-way collision late Friday that killed two teenage siblings and injured three other teens in Far North Dallas.
Police released photos of the man, who they identified as Faustino Membreno Rivera, on Sunday and sought information on his whereabouts. He was last seen wearing a light-colored shirt and pants, police said.
The teens’ family said they were on their way to grab tacos around 9 p.m. when a pickup truck collided with their SUV in the 13900 block of Esperanza Road, near Midpark and Spring Valley roads.
The driver of the pickup fled, police said.
Five people were taken to the hospital. The siblings died and three other teens were treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Family identified the two teens who died in the crash as 15-year-old Andres Pineda and 16-year-old Crystal Pineda, WFAA-TV (Channel 8) reported.
The siblings’ cousin Nancy Pineda told the TV station the pickup crossed the double yellow lines and hit the teenagers’ vehicle head-on.
Police said the pickup truck was driving at a high speed headed south on Esperanza Road in the northbound lane of traffic.
“I just wish all this were a nightmare,” the siblings’ stepmom, Daniela Martinez, told WFAA. “They were so young. They had a life ahead of them. They were good kids.”
Martinez said the siblings attended J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, KXAS-TV (NBC5) reported.
“We need justice for those two little kids that had a whole future, a whole life, and now it’s taken away by the person,” Nancy Pineda told WFAA. “For him to come up and own his own responsibility because if he did it once, what shows you that he’s not going to do it again.”
Martinez said to the TV station: “It hurts just to know that the guy ... he just left. … He left them there hopeless. Lifeless. They were just kids. They were barely even alive.”
A GoFundMe was set up for funeral expenses. It had raised more than $17,500 as of Sunday afternoon.
Anyone with information about the man’s whereabouts or the crash may contact Detective Kenneth Watson at 214-671-0015 or kenneth.watson@dallascityhall.com and refer to case No. 075383-2022.
www.dallasnews.com/news/2022/05/01/police-looking-for-man-wanted-in-connection-to-fatal-wrong-way-collision/
Thoughts? Based on the above article's posting date, Membreno Rivera was still at large at least as of May 1st, 2022.
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