John Jefferson
Left: Footage captured by a neighbor’s doorbell camera showing a deadly hit-and-run of a pregnant 16-year-old in Riverside, California (KABC/YouTube). Center: Isaac BlackhorseGarcia (Riverside Police Department). Right: Footage showing the family of a pregnant 16-year-old in Riverside, California, reacting to the hit-and-run that took her life (KABC/YouTube).
A 16-year-old pregnant girl in California was mowed down and killed by a 19-year-old man after she confronted him for having sex with the victim’s underage sister, with a neighbor’s doorbell camera capturing her family’s gut-wrenching reaction to the alleged hit-and-run.
Issac Blackhorse Garcia, of Riverside, is accused of killing the teenage girl on Feb. 2 at around 11:45 p.m. that Sunday night, according to police. Neighbors witnessed the aftermath of the alleged hit-and-run and saw the pregnant victim lying in the street afterward. Her family was caught on video running over to her moments later as Blackhorse Garcia allegedly fled the scene. The girl’s baby was delivered at the hospital and is in critical condition.
The footage, which was obtained by Los Angeles ABC affiliate KABC, shows the victim’s family running over and screaming in horror after they see what happened.
“There was a car that just flew really fast through here,” neighbor Miriam Betamen told KABC. “We saw a girl that was right on the street, just laying flat.”
Upon arrival, officers found the pregnant female and rushed her to a local hospital with “severe injuries,” where she later died. “The medical staff delivered her baby, who remains in critical condition,” the Riverside Police Department reported in a press release Thursday. “Officers located the suspect vehicle in Moreno Valley and took the driver into custody.”
While probing the pregnant teen’s death, investigators determined that Blackhorse Garcia had been in a “sexual relationship” with the victim’s teenage sister. “When he dropped the sister off at home, family members approached his vehicle,” Riverside PD reported. “Blackhorse Garcia then sped away, striking the victim with his car.”
According to KABC, the girl’s baby was still in “critical condition” at a local children’s hospital as of Friday. Residents told the station that her mom walked around the neighborhood regularly.
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“We would see her walking through the neighborhood getting some exercise,” recalled resident Christopher Garrett. “We just saw them that previous day before the tragedy,” he said of the girl and one of her relatives. “Her and her sister, and they were like laughing.”
Blackhorse Garcia was arrested and booked into the Robert Presley Detention Center on charges of murder, hit-and-run resulting in death and unlawful sex with a minor. He was being held without bail.
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