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(11,230 posts) Mon Aug 16, 2021, 05:17 PM Aug 2021

Father of Four Allegedly Crashed Head-on into Big Rig on Purpose While Entire Family Was in SUV

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/father-of-four-allegedly-crashed-head-on-into-big-rig-on-purpose-while-entire-family-was-in-suv/ar-AANnByK

A man allegedly crashed his SUV into a semi truck on purpose while driving his family. The four children survived, and one of them reportedly told a relative that their mother died after struggling with the suspect over the steering wheel.

Cesar Iban Torres, 31, faces a count of first-degree murder after Aimee Guadalupe Garcia, 25, died in the Thursday collision, according to NBC Los Angeles. The children’s ages range from 8 years old to 18 months. The big rig’s driver also survived the crash.

The wrong-way crash shut down lanes of 101 Freeway in Encino, California. A white SUV collided head-first into a semi truck near the 405 Freeway, the Los Angeles Fire Department said in a KABC report.

Garcia’s brother Juan Zavala told the outlet that Torres called him hours before the crash and made disturbing statements. Torres asserted that the government was after him, he said.

“‘If I go missing, and the boys go missing, you know who did it,'” Torres said according to Zavala. “I’m like, ‘What are you talking about.’ And he said God talked to him and said he has to give his family to God, and I’m like ‘No, what are you talking about? Come back.'”

After the crash, one of the boys said Garcia fought with Torres for control of the steering wheel, Zavala said. Garcia managed to get the SUV out of the way but Torres moved it back, according to this story.

“He said, ‘Mommy saved us,’ and that broke my heart,” Zavala said.