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HOUSTON -- A 2-year-old lad is inactive successful the infirmary with encephalon injuries aft being ejected from a conveyance much than a week ago, his household said.
Juan Suarez's great-grandmother was driving him location successful northeast Houston connected the greeting of Jan. 30.
A surveillance video obtained exclusively by ABC Houston affiliate KTRK shows that erstwhile they reached an intersection, a achromatic pickup motortruck ran a reddish airy and slammed into the family's car.
The boy's household said helium went flying into a ditch; although, it's hard to marque retired successful the video.
"I was like, 'Oh, my God, please, conscionable fto him, fto him beryllium capable to marque it. Let him beryllium capable to marque it,'" Suarez's parent Michelle Hernandez said.
Hernandez said her lad was treated for encephalon injuries and a breached arm. He got retired of the intensive attraction portion this week, but volition apt necessitate intensive therapy earlier he's capable to locomotion again, she said.
His great-grandmother's present home, but with aggregate rib and spine fractures.
In the surveillance video, you tin spot the motortruck propulsion the family's car into a schoolhouse bus.
The motortruck goes spinning retired of power earlier the operator and rider ascent retired of the driver's broadside and commencement running.
"Didn't halt to render assistance oregon anything," Hernandez said.
Police arrived wrong seconds.
The family's attorney, Richard Nguyen, sent KTRK a statement, which reads successful part:
"The perpetrators who caused this large car mishap were being pursued by instrumentality enforcement officers astatine a precise precocious complaint of velocity ... There needs to beryllium a thorough reappraisal of the policies and procedures with respect to the viability of pursuing criminals successful a high-speed constabulary chase."
The Houston Police Department initially told KTRK they weren't pursuing the truck, but said an serviceman saw it tally a reddish airy earlier the clang and whitethorn person tried to propulsion it over.
Friday, HPD clarified that an serviceman believed helium saw the suspects stealing tract instrumentality from a trailer astir 2 miles from the clang site, but said they fled and astir deed the officer's patrol car successful the process.
Police said the serviceman activated his exigency lights, but didn't pursuit the suspects.
HPD said it's actively moving to place the operator and passenger.
"I privation them to wage for what they did," the boy's grandma Ana Torres said. "My babe whitethorn not beryllium the aforesaid anymore, but we're trusting successful God that God's gonna heal him completely."
The household has started a GoFundMe campaign to screen aesculapian expenses.
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