A Las Vegas woman who allowed a 15-year-old skateboarder to hang onto the side of her car before he was fatally crushed doing the dangerous trick has been arrested on an outstanding warrant for child abuse. (Read More Here).
Anais Hernandez, 36, had been behind the wheel May 13, 2022, when Anthony De La Torre asked if he could skateboard while holding onto the car, KLAS reported.
Hernandez refused, telling him the trick would be unsafe.
Yet Hernandez let the boy’s 19-year-old aunt, Destiny Jimenez, drive instead — even though Jimenez had been drinking, smoking weed and didn’t have a driver’s license, the news outlet reported.
After Jimenez took the wheel, De La Torre — one of four youngsters in the back seat — started skateboarding while holding onto the outside of the Jeep.
Hernandez later told police it felt like the vehicle had run over “a bump” when they had actually hit and run over De La Torre.
When the group got out of the vehicle, they found De La Torre lying on the road, bleeding from his head.
Police responding to the horror found De La Torre surrounded by family members. Jimenez, through tears, told cops she was the driver and had been drinking and smoking prior to the crash, KLAS reported at the time.
De La Torre died from his injuries days later on May 17. His cause of death was multiple blunt force injuries and was listed as accidental.
Hernandez, who had felony warrant out for her arrest on charges of child abuse/neglect, was taken into custody on Wednesday. After the teen’s death last May, Jimenez was arrested and charged with reckless driving resulting in death, DUI resulting in death, and driving without a valid driver’s license.
Jimenez, who was identified by the family as the teen’s aunt, admitted she had been drinking and smoking marijuana just before the incident. Police say she also did not have a driver’s license.
When cops arrived to the scene on Forsyth Street in May 2022, Jimenez was crying and told them the teen had been on his skateboard clinging to the front passenger door of Jeep when he fell and was run over.
Police later discovered that the vehicle belonged to Hernandez who had been driving that day with Jimenez in the passenger seat and four juveniles in the backseat. Jimenez, who was 19 at the time, began cruising down Forsyth Street while the teen held on from the outside when he suddenly fell from his skateboard and got caught under the car. Hernandez would later told police that ‘it felt like we ran over a bump.’
De La Torre died from his injuries days later on May 17. His cause of death was multiple blunt force injuries and was listed as accidental.
Hernandez, who had felony warrant out for her arrest on charges of child abuse/neglect, was taken into custody on Wednesday.
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