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A drunken Florida teen struck and killed a 2-year-old boy driving a tricycle exterior his dwelling because the youngster’s dad and mom screamed on the driver to decelerate on Monday, authorities mentioned.
Joshua Montero, 19, was rushing down a highway in Tavares in a Toyota Tacoma round 7:15 p.m. as kids rode their bikes within the cul-de-sac in entrance of their dwelling, in keeping with an arrest affidavit obtained by FOX35 Orlando.
The youngsters’s dad and mom had been standing of their driveway watching them trip the bikes once they yelled on the driver to decelerate, the affidavit states.
The motive force didn’t decelerate and struck their 2-year-old son as he rode his blue tricycle, in keeping with police.
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Joshua Montero, 19, is charged with DUI manslaughter after allegedly operating over and killing a 2-year-old boy whereas he was intoxicated on Monday. (Lake County Jail)
“The truck struck the kid and appeared to pull the kid and bicycle just a few ft earlier than the truck got here to relaxation based mostly on the obvious blood marks within the roadway,” police mentioned.
The truck’s entrance tire “utterly” ran over the toddler, and neighbors raced to present the boy CPR till paramedics might arrive, police mentioned. The boy was rushed to a hospital the place he later died.
The toddler was driving his blue tricycle in entrance of his dwelling as his dad and mom watched when an alleged drunk driver struck and killed the kid, in keeping with police. (FOX35 Orlando WOFL)
Montero was discovered within the driver’s seat of the truck, police mentioned. An officer who spoke with Montero on the sidewalk after the crash mentioned within the doc that Montero’s breath had a “robust odor of alcohol” and he had “bloodshot glassy eyes.”
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Police introduced Montero to the native jail and examined his blood alcohol degree, which was .062 and .057, the affidavit states. Investigators imagine Montero’s blood alcohol degree was larger on the time of the crash.
Montero was charged with DUI manslaughter and given a DUI quotation.
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Montero stays in custody on the Lake County Jail. The investigation is ongoing.
