Fundraiser held for Parlier family after 5 killed, 11-year-old injured in crash

PARLIER, Calif. (KFSN) -- On Sunday, respective radical gathered to assistance signifier a fundraiser for the Ochoa household that died successful a car clang connected January 17.

From accepted Mexican drinks to blistery dogs to menudo, organizers accidental radical were acceptable to assistance successful immoderate mode they could.

"Everyone that has a small table, stand, were each friends with them," person of the household Alvina Talavera said. "They were truly caring, responsible, hardworking."

This fundraiser comes aft the household was astir 2 hours distant from their existent location successful Bend, Oregon erstwhile they crashed connected a slippery highway.

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Police accidental 39-year-old Juan Ochoa was driving erstwhile the conveyance veered into oncoming traffic.

Ochoa, his woman Eva, their 2 teenage kids, and their youngest, a one-year-old, died astatine the scene.

Their 11-year-old girl did past the clang and she remains successful captious condition.

The surviving household is doing everything they tin to enactment the 11-year-old girl.

Zenaida Benito is related to the Ochoa family. She says she was heartbroken erstwhile she heard the news. But it's the assemblage enactment that's getting her and her household done this devastating time.

"We whitethorn beryllium a precise tiny municipality present successful Parlier but we are precise heartfelt. We don't request to cognize each different to beryllium supportive. As agelong as, you know, that heart, that instauration is there," Benito said.

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