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SHANDON, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Among the 3 radical from the Central Valley killed successful a clang successful San Luis Obispo County implicit the weekend were a mates who were adjacent to spending the remainder of their lives together.
The clang connected July 28 astatine Highway 43 adjacent Shandon claimed the lives of 27-year-old Francisco Polina and his woman of 3 years, 24-year-old Rosie Bucio. A 3rd person, 32-year-old Yvette Guzman from Sanger, was besides killed.
YourCentralValley.com spoke to Diana Vega, Francisco Polina's younger sister. She described her member arsenic hardworking, joyful and ever cracking jokes to marque everyone laugh.
"It truly hurts, Francisco had plans of a ringing for Rosie," Vega said. "I retrieve him telling america astir it."
Vega says her brother's joyful tone matched perfectly with his girlfriend's radiant energy.
"[They] were ever the mates that lit up the room," Vega said. "They made everyone consciousness welcome."
According to Vega, her member and his woman went with 2 different friends connected a travel to the seashore to flight the summertime heat. Vega says she did not get a accidental to spot her member that Sunday, but the erstwhile Sunday she and her household had what she present knows was her past household meal with Francisco Polina.
"He had conscionable called my ma saying helium got done with a haircut," Vega said. "he came to sojourn us, and my full household was present [at my apartment]."
Vega, her 2 younger siblings, her parents, and Francisco Polina sat down for a repast cooked by her father.
"We were each blessed due to the fact that it had been a agelong clip since he'd travel to the location to eat. It felt lovely," Vega said. "If I had known it was going to beryllium the past clip I'd spot him I would've held him forever."
Vega says her brother's decease means her younger member mislaid a champion friend, her younger sister mislaid a 2nd begetter figure, and she volition ne'er cognize what benignant of idiosyncratic helium would become.
Vega says her friends, family, and her brother's friends person reached retired successful enactment of their family; her champion person organized a GoFundMe online fundraiser for the couple. That online fundraiser aims to rise $20,000 to wage for ceremonial expenses.
