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CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Loved ones of Martha Hernandez and her 9-year-old lad Adrian came unneurotic successful Old Town Clovis Tuesday nighttime for a vigil to mourn the 2 killed the time aft Easter.
The parent and lad were killed successful a deadly hit-and-run clang successful cardinal Fresno, which sent their car into a canal.
"She's a beauteous soul, and it does bring maine bid knowing she's with the Lord present and truthful is her baby," says Hernandez's coworker.
Where determination was erstwhile a engaged nail station, present prevarication flowers.
Clinging to 1 another, family, coworkers, and clients of Martha Hernandez oregon 'Miss Patty' filled Chosen Salon successful Old Town Clovis.
The beloved nail creator and parent mislaid her beingness on with her nine-year-old son, Adrian, successful a deadly hit-and-run clang the greeting aft Easter.
"I would travel successful and we would conscionable talk. She would cognize what words to say. She loved her boys. Her boys were her everything," says Hernandez's client.
"She conscionable wanted to marque everybody consciousness beautiful. I cognize that, adjacent though she's not present with us, I consciousness her presence," says Hernandez's coworker.
The parent and her lad were driving location from an Easter solemnisation with household erstwhile constabulary accidental an SUV ran a reddish airy and crashed into their car, sending them into the Dry Creek Canal.
Nine-year- aged Adrian was a beloved pupil astatine Tarpey Elementary. His teachers remembered him arsenic agleam and kind.
"My fondest representation of him is doing an creation task with him, and it's a imagination door, and what was wrong his imagination doorway was him and his ma and saying that his imagination was to ever beryllium with his mom," says Adrian's teacher.
Clinging to a bluish teddy bear, a small lad handed it to Hernandez's older son, Michael, a precocious schoolhouse elder present acceptable to postgraduate without his mother. The teen stood alongside his aunt and grandparents.
The family, surrounded by support.
"She was dedicated to God, she was dedicated to her family, she was a large sister. She was a bully friend. She was an astonishing counselor. We ne'er expected thing similar this to happen, but we commune that God volition bring justice," says Hernandez's sister.
Loved ones lit candles conscionable hours aft the fishy turned himself successful to the Fresno County Jail.
Police accidental 22-year-old Timothy Chavez was the operator who ran from the crash.
ABC30 ineligible expert Tony Capozzi says helium could look charges of vehicular manslaughter, hit-and-run, driving with a suspended license, and without insurance.
"Turning himself successful is ever good. Running distant is not a bully thought unless determination whitethorn beryllium immoderate circumstances you're trying to avoid," says Capozzi.
As the memorial astatine the clang tract continues to turn and tributes determination in, constabulary proceed their investigation.
"People innocent, minding their ain business, coming location from Easter Sunday with their family, deed by what appears to beryllium a drunk operator is an implicit calamity connected each level," says Fresno Police Chief Mindy Casto.
Clovis Unified tells Action News it volition supply further affectional enactment to the assemblage astatine Tarpy Elementary.
The household has acceptable up a GoFundMe; you tin find a nexus here.
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