A Hit and Run Case in Los Angeles Resulted in the Death of a One-Year-Old Infant

A one-year-old toddler, along with his uncle, died after a hit-and-run incident occurred in Los Angeles earlier in the week. The one-year-old victim was returning from the beach when a jeep driver crashed into them.

The one-year-old victim has been identified as Roger Sandoval Farias, who was returning home after a beach day with his family. While they were returning, a Jeep Cherokee struck them. Eyewitnesses, while talking to the local news outlet NBC4, said that the efforts to revive the one-year-old at the scene were not successful.

“I shouldn’t be burying my son,” Nicole Farias, mother of the one-year-old victim, told NBC4. “I wanted to see him walk, you know,” she added while talking to the outlet.

One of the witnesses who tried to help the child after the accident, Cory Cooper, said, “She ran over and was holding the child,” indicating towards Nicole Farias. “We held the baby, and we tried to give the baby CPR, for as long as we could, as best as we could, until the ambulance got there,” Cooper added.

“He is still warm,” Farias was heard saying while she was trying to revive her one-year-old son.

“When I took off the baby's clothes of the baby, he was still warm, but his feet and his hands were already cold,” Farias said.

According to a press release put out by the Los Angeles Police Department, the driver of the Jeep Cherokee left the vehicle on the scene and fled on foot, “without stopping to identify themselves or render aid as required by the law.”

The victim’s father, Oscar Sandoval, while talking to the local ABC affiliate KABC on May 3rd, was holding his son’s teddy bear, which he had to pull away from his son to save his life on the side of the road. He also spoke about how he lost his brother in the same accident.

Oswaldo Sandoval, the uncle of the one-year-old who also lost his life in the hit-and-run incident, was just 25 years old and died at the scene. “I don’t wish this to anybody, nobody to do this. He was barely 1-year-old,” the grieving mother said.

“The Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded and pronounced one occupant of the BMW deceased at the scene. The other three occupants of the BMW were transported to a nearby hospital, where one of them was declared dead, and another is reportedly in serious condition,” according to the press release.