The incident was captured on surveillance video, which showed a tan sedan spinning out onto the sidewalk after losing control along Hyperion, first striking a parking sign, then some trash cans, and eventually Garcia. Her family said she’d taken the route for 15 years and on that day, as she had often done, was stopping to collect any recyclables she saw to help fund her daughter’s college tuition. Garcia, a wife and mother of three, was killed while taking her usual morning walk along the 1800 block of Hyperion Avenue at about 6 a.m. 16, Los Angeles police said in a news release. 17, 2019.Ī man released after being arrested in connection with the death of a 57-year-old woman in a hit-and-run in Silver Lake has been charged in the case, police said Thursday.įreddy Prieto, a 47-year-old Norwalk man, is facing charges of vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run causing property damage after Christina Garcia was fatally struck in the early morning of Jan. Freddy Prieto, 47, is seen in a photo released by Los Angeles Police Department on Jan. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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