Lady left mind useless after assault, Household calls for justice
An East Los Angeles household is searching for justice after Maria Guadelupe Vargas, {a partially} blind girl, was attacked and declared mind useless. The incident has left her husband, Jose Rangel Hernandez, devastated.
“She’s my life, she’s my love, she’s at all times with me what am I going to do now,” Rangel Hernandez stated, expressing his grief.
The tragic occasion occurred on March 9 round 10:30 a.m. at a McDonald’s drive-thru on Soto Road. Rangel Hernandez was being attacked by a homeless man when Vargas tried to assist.
“When the man got here to me, I didn’t need any bother, so I stated ‘no English.’ He began hitting me 3, 4 instances,” Rangel Hernandez recalled.
Surveillance footage confirmed Vargas making her technique to the 2 males, trying to help her husband. Sadly, the attacker bumped her. In consequence, inflicting her to fall and hit her head. This incident led to a coronary heart assault and subsequent mind harm.
Vargas was initially hospitalized and launched however was readmitted as her situation worsened. Docs ultimately knowledgeable the household that she now not had mind exercise.
“That was his endlessly associate, somebody he thought he was going to spend so much extra time with,” stated William Cantabrana, the sufferer’s grandson.
The household expressed frustration with the authorities, claiming the police had been initially reluctant to arrest the attacker. When he was lastly taken into custody, he was charged with a misdemeanor and launched.
“They catch him and let him go. He does one thing else incorrect, catch him and let him go once more,” Rangel Hernandez stated.
The household is urging the DA’s workplace to re-evaluate the case and search justice for Vargas.
“I need what my entire household desires, justice, for it to not simply be a waste of life,” Cantabrana stated.
Supply: NBC Los Angeles
