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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The parent of the teenage bicyclist who was deed and killed by a car successful Fresno tin lone picture his nonaccomplishment arsenic "heartbreaking." However, contempt their unfortunate circumstances, the Torres household is relieved to person the enactment of the assemblage with them.
"This past week has been unbearable. It's been devastating, it's been painful, it's been heartbreaking, it's been heartbreaking, and it's been heartbreaking, you know, to suffer our lad astatine an aboriginal age—I ne'er imagined," said Juanita Torres.
On Saturday, a car lavation fundraiser was held successful enactment of the Torres family, who mislaid 15-year-old Nathan Torres successful a clang connected Sept. 29. Friends, household and assemblage members gathered astatine the country of Olive Avenue and Fresno Street to rise funds to assistance Juanita laic her lad to rest.
"We're present for Nathan. I don't privation to beryllium here, I privation this ne'er happened, but unfortunately, I americium here, and I'm doing it for our lad Nathan due to the fact that Nathan would've been— Nathan is arrogant of the result that the assemblage has shown," she said.
Despite the unfortunate condition she faces, Juanita said she's touched by the outpour of enactment from the surrounding community.
"It's beautiful, it's beauteous that we inactive person a assemblage that cares for our children," she said. "I'm gladsome the assemblage has came done for us. I ne'er imagined that we would person to, I'm gladsome they did, though, they stepped up and I admit each azygous 1 of them."
Juanita added that the acquisition has besides brought her enactment from different families who person mislaid their children successful collisions.
"I met truthful galore parents that person mislaid their kids owed to postulation accidents, and it's heartbreaking. It's truthful heartbreaking, heartbreaking, heartbreaking— and present we person thing successful common. Everyone's a parent, but astatine the extremity of the day, you losing your child, there's nary words for that," she said.
Juanita describes her lad arsenic a agleam kid who was nary alien to athletics.
"He would play each sports— each sports, basketball, football, soccer, baseball. One of the neighbors crossed the thoroughfare has kids, and they met him due to the fact that Nathan would beryllium astatine the Post Office time and nighttime playing," she said. "Nathan was conscionable a blessed kid. At the extremity of it, Nathan had the brightest smiles, brightest hugs, biggest hugs, and just, Nathan was amazing, astonishing kid that had a agleam future— and it was stolen from him, and that's heartbreaking."
Juanita said the fundraiser was made imaginable acknowledgment to a household friend, David Sandoval, who took complaint erstwhile she mislaid her son.
"We're conscionable trying to rise wealth for the family. Trying to instrumentality arsenic overmuch disconnected their shoulders arsenic possible. I'm conscionable a person of the family; his dada was my boy. And I emotion that small kid too, you know, a consecutive Niners fan, die-hard Niners fan. He's going to beryllium missed," Sandoval said.
Anyone who would similar to assistance the Torres household laic Nathan to remainder tin donate to his GoFundMe.
