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The household of a homeless California lady who died after a lawnmower hit her is demanding that somebody be held accountable for her loss of life.
“We’re going to strive all the pieces to get justice,” stated Christopher Chavez after the loss of life of his 27-year-old daughter Christine Chavez in Modesto.
Modesto police stated at midday Saturday, July 8, {that a} landscaper used a tractor with a rear mower to chop the grass in Beard Brook Park. The landscaper seen an unresponsive physique in an space he had already mowed, KTVU reported.
The landscaper referred to as 911 and Chavez was pronounced lifeless on the scene.
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Christine Chavez was pronounced lifeless after a garden mower hit her at a park in Modesto, California. (GoFundMe)
“They left huge chunks of her in every single place, simply coated within the grass. We have now to go see the place as a result of we wished some sort of closure, and to be there, wanting on the floor, after which unexpectedly (items) of her to see is horrible,” the sufferer’s sister, Rosalinda, instructed Fox 40.
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Chavez’s father stated he was in a position to gather items of his daughter’s bones, tooth and cranium after her loss of life.
The Stanislaus County coroner remains to be attempting to find out Chavez’s explanation for loss of life. Her household calls for that the native police conduct an intensive investigation and ask how it’s attainable that the landscaper missed the lady within the grass.
Beard Brook Park in Modesto, California (Google Maps)
“It is a lie that they did not see her,” Christopher Chavez stated, in accordance with KCRA. “I hold going as a result of I’ve to. I search justice and I might be there till one thing occurs.”
Chavez’s father stated she typically got here to his home whereas she was homeless, and infrequently slept exterior in the course of the day. In response to native studies, she had been homeless for the previous three or 4 years.
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Native vineyard E & J Gallo Vineyard acquired Beard Brook Park from town authorities a day earlier than Chavez’s loss of life. A spokesperson for the corporate instructed native media that the landscaper was employed to take away weeds and supply fireplace prevention.
A spokesperson instructed native media that the landscaper was employed to take away weeds and supply fireplace prevention. (Google Maps)
The spokesman stated Chavez was “not seen and mendacity in a excessive, weedy space”.
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Jose Zermeño, Chavez’s brother-in-law, instructed Fox 40 that the landscaper ought to have been extra conscious of his environment.
“I work with machines, I do know that once you’re working with machines you take note of what’s in entrance of you, particularly when you’re dragging one thing behind you,” stated Zermeño. “And since he did not see something in entrance of him, he did not do his job.”
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Chavez is survived by a 9-year-old daughter, KTLA reported.
California homeless lady dies in horrific lawnmower accident, household calls for solutions
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