PLEASANTON, Texas – A person is in police custody after he allegedly hit and killed a 17-year-old girl with a car and failed to forestall and lend a hand help early Friday morning in Pleasanton.
Jose Torres Garcia, 46, is charged with failure to forestall and render help, ensuing in a demise.
According to the Pleasanton Police Department, round 12:30 a.m. officials had been known as to the 700 block of Humble Camp Road no longer some distance from South Main Street, after receiving phrase of an individual injured.
Police stated officials arrived to discover a teenage girl mendacity at the facet of the street they usually started life-saving measures. The girl was once taken by way of ambulance to a space health facility, the place she later died.
Pleasanton PD stated investigators decided she were hit by way of a car and started to talk with witnesses who informed them that they noticed the girl strolling and a car touring south on Humble Camp Road.
Authorities say all the way through their investigation they had been ready to spot a suspect, who later came about to go back to the scene.
Torres Garcia is these days in Atascosa County prison, the place he stays in custody.
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