el Don /SANTA ANA COLLEGE • MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2014/eldonnews.org
el Don /SANTA ANA COLLEGE • MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2014/eldonnews.org
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MEMORIES / Friends, family and members of the community, including neighbors and local politicians, stopped by an expanding memorial on the corner of Fairhaven Street
and Grand Avenue, where three teens died after being hit by a car. Jaquinn Bell is accused of driving through a crosswalk and hitting the trick-or-treaters. / Liz Monroy / el Don
TRAGIC:
TEENS DEAD
Sisters Lexi and Lexandra
Perez and best friend
Andrea Gonzalez, all
13-years-old, were three of
five pedestrian deaths
on Halloween weekend
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page that has raised more than
$40,000 as of Nov. 5.
Gonzalez has a Go Fund
Me page that has raised about
$30,000.
Principal Jim D’ Agostino
at Santiago Charter Middle
School, which Andrea attended,
set up the page.
The girls were in the middle of a crosswalk in front of
Fairhaven Elementary School
where Bell is suspected of
striking them about 6:45 p.m.
“We’re kind of upset that
there’s no lighting and this is
such a fast street anyway,” said
community member Tara Reynaud of the crosswalk. “Now
we hear that [Mayor] Miguel
Pulido said they were going to
do something about the street.
They should have done
that before.”
Flowers, candles and stuffed
animals fill the curb, near
where the accident happened,
in an impromptu memorial for
three lives cut short.
Although Bell is now behind
bars and could face years in
jail, it brings no comfort to
family and friends.
“Do I think that’s going to
make the families feel better?
Absolutely not, their kids are
gone, their beautiful little babies are gone,” Reynaud said.
In Orange County it was one
of three accidents resulting in
fatalities since Halloween night.
In Irvine a 65-year-old man
was out trick-or-treating with
his 4-year-old son when they
were both struck by a car.
The father, who was later
identified as immigration attorney John Roger Alcorn, died
that same night and his son
John Lincoln was left in critical
but stable condition.
In this situation the driver, a
woman, stopped and stayed at
the scene and initially faced no
charges but the investigation is
ongoing, Irvine police said.
On Saturday night, a 44-yearold woman, Daniella Palacios,
was riding her bicycle when a
white truck struck her, according to video surveillance.
Palacios was also a victim of
a hit and run but no one has
been arrested in this case. She
left behind eight children and
several grandchildren.
A total of five people died
in Orange Count in car and
pedestrian collisions over the
Halloween weekend.