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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Fresno Police are inactive searching for the operator liable for the hit-and-run decease of 39-year-old Luis Perez connected Mother's Day adjacent Thesta Street and Belmont Avenue.
As the hunt continues, his household and friends are lone opening to mourn.
"I conscionable can't judge and I don't privation to judge it, that he's gone," his wife, Mary Ellen Perez, said.
She said she's inactive coming to presumption with the information that she'll ne'er spot her hubby again. They had been unneurotic for implicit a decade. When she heard the news, she was successful shock.
"I told her, no, it can't beryllium my husband. Can't beryllium him," she said.
He was killed riding his motorcycle connected Mother's Day connected Thesta adjacent Belmont. Police accidental a acheronian colored sedan deed him, and contempt the efforts of bystanders similar Jessica Ortiz, who called 911 and stayed with him connected the country until EMS arrived, helium died astatine CRMC.
Ortiz wanted to grant his beingness and hosted a vigil for him connected Thursday.
"We can't sleep. We person his face. Like we adjacent our eyes and we spot his face," she said.
Ortiz is present helping combat for justice. It's thing she says hits particularly adjacent to home. She says her member Bernardo Yniguez's execution lawsuit is not solved, and she knows each excessively good the symptom the Perez household is feeling close now.
"My member was murdered successful 2022, and we didn't get justice. You know, nary substance however overmuch we tried, we didn't get that. And truthful for me, arsenic agelong arsenic I tin assistance idiosyncratic else, that's wherefore I'm doing this," Ortiz said.
Ortiz and Perez are present urging whoever did this to crook themselves in.
"You cognize what you did. And you took somebody's life," Ortiz said.
"I don't merit it. He doesn't merit it. Whoever did this to him, travel forward. Please. Come forward," Perez pleaded, coming to tears arsenic she spoke.
If you person immoderate accusation connected the case, telephone Fresno Police.
