iFreePress Bringing News on Time Every Time The grandfather of a 4-year-old girl killed in a road rage shooting in New Mexico says something has to be done about gun violence.
Councilor Rey Garduno told The Associated Press on Thursday that Alan and Veronica Garcia are holding up emotionally but often get overwhelmed.
Torrez is also charged with child abuse, child abuse resulting in death, shooting at or from a motor vehicle and evidence tampering, Albuquerque police said. He told police he was attempting to exit the highway to go to a grocery store, but a auto crossed two lanes of traffic and blocked him. He is being held on $650,000 cash bond.
Todd Farkas, his lawyer, declined to comment.
A candlelight vigil will take place for Lilly Saturday at Civic Plaza in Albuquerque at 6:30 p.m. More information on the vigil is available here.
Cars race along a busy section of Interstate 40 in Albuquerque, N.M., Wednesday, October 21, 2015, where police say a 4-year-old girl was shot during an apparent road-rage argument. Torrez hung his head through much of the hearing and only replied “no sir” when Schultz asked if he had any questions.
In addition to helping identify Lilly’s suspected killer, people from across the country have donated over ,000 to her grieving family.
(Gorden) “The Albuquerque Police Department detectives took into custody, Tony Torrez, age 32, who confessed to the murder”.
Alan Garcia then threw up his hands and called the suspect a name.
Garcia accelerated when Torrez drove near his vehicle but hear two shots. Then his 7-year-old son said, “She’s bleeding”, referring to his little sister.
The father quickly pulled the truck into the median and tried to administer first aid on his daughter as a bystander called 911 to report “an adult holding an unresponsive child”.
He launched the effort after authorities say another repeat offender shot and killed a Rio Rancho police officer earlier this year. He pleaded guilty to going 16 to 20 miles per hour over the speed limit in April 2013, according to court records.
Around that time, charges including abandonment or abuse of a child and aggravated battery of a household member were dismissed after the victim died.
Police said following his arrest that Torrez had confessed to the shooting.
The vehicle used in the road rage shooting is described as a maroon or dark red newer model Toyota sedan. “This should never have happened”.
In Lilly Garcia’s short life, her big brown eyes sparkled - just like her personality, her parents say.
Tony Torrez admitted to opening fire on the freeway, fatally shooting 4-year old Lilly as she and her brother sat in the back of her dad’s pickup truck on Tuesday. Reporter: In court, prosecutors detailed Torrez’s violent criminal history, which includes another arrest for road rage.
