Family’s shares last moments of toddlers, 2 and grandfather, 73, before being killed in suspected DUI crash

A grandfather and his young grandchildren were killed during the Easter weekend when the car they travel in with the family suffered a suspected drunk driver.

Albino Barrera, 73 and 2-year-old Sofia Barrera left a church member’s birthday party with the child’s mother, her grandmother and a cousin, when a woman who ran a white Chevy SUV lost control of her car and crashed into the family’s Ford SUV on Saturday 19 April.

Barraved was just a few minutes from their Anaheim, California, home when the deadly collision occurred on the 5 highway and killed the patriarch and Sofia directly, Kabc reported.

The driver, whose identity has not been released, was rushed to the hospital with major injuries and suspected to have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

People could not immediately reach California’s highway patrol for comments.

When Barrara, the loss mourn, they tell the news station that they were left with a last photo that the couple took together just before they died.

“My dad is not the kind of person to take pictures. He doesn’t like to take so many pictures,” Herby said Barrera about his father’s last moments in an emotional interview with KABC.

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“It was something that will live in our hearts forever because he decided to come to my niece and say,“ Hello, let’s take a picture. “They were the last to take a picture in that photo booth.

Ishmael Barrera Romero went in the front passenger seat of the family’s Ford SUV when the accident occurred shortly after 19:00 local time.

Albino, who was in the back with Sofia, was thrown out.

“As soon as I got out of my place, I saw my grandfather Albino on the floor,” a tearful Ishmael told ABC7.

He remembered, “I was just in shock, I didn’t know what to do. I cried, I demanded help. I saw witnesses there who already called the police.”

“It is very difficult to process, but we only come together as a family and just try to support each other,” Herby added.

He said the situation was completely prevented: “This can be prevented if people are responsible for their driving. Two loved ones were removed from us because someone was careless.”

Jaanai Barrera organized one Gofundme Where she said, “The family is destroyed by this unthinkable loss.”

“This is one of the most challenging experiences we have ever endured as a family,” she wrote.

Albino and Sofia remember as “two incredible and loving individuals.”

“One was the patriarch for our family, which brought us all, and the other just began to embrace life as a barrack,” Jaanai added.

As of Monday, April 21, Gofundme had reached more than $ 21,000 of its $ 25,000 target.