Justin Dike and Alexius Mills.Photo: Facebook (2)
“I just think it’s a bad dream,” said Pamela Parker, whose 28-year-old daughter, Alexius Mills, was killed. “I’m hoping it’s a bad dream,” reportsCBS DFW.
Parker’s boyfriend, 28-year-old Justin Eric Dike, was driving to work Saturday morning when a tire on his vehicle went flat on State Highway 360 near the Arlington-Mansfield city line, his mother, Lisa Sanchez, toldKDFW.
When Dike called his mother to inform her, “He said, ‘Mama, when I get it all straightened out, I’ll give you a call. Let you know it’s OK.’ I said, ‘OK, I love you,’ and [he said] ‘I love you too’ and we hung up,” Sanchez told the outlet.
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“The moment I didn’t hear back from her for like two hours, I knew something was up,” said Matheson.
In the incident, which occurred at about 7:30 a.m., police allege that Adan Hermosillo Garcia, 31, was driving an SUV that rear-ended the vehicle that had pulled over to assist the first vehicle, causing a chain-reaction crash that pinned Dike under the SUV, reportsNBC DFW. Dike died at the scene.
Adan Hermosillo Garcia.Arlington Police Department
Online jail records do not list an attorney who might speak on his behalf. It was not immediately clear if he has entered a plea to the charges.
“She loved everybody, would do anything in the world for you,” Parker said of her daughter, reports CBS DFW.
Mills was pursuing a nursing degree when she was killed, her older sister Leddy Harris, who described Mills as “full of life” and “beautiful and smart,” told KDFW.
“There is no excuse for it, to get behind the wheel when you’ve been drinking,” she said. “There is no excuse to take someone’s life like that.”
source: people.com
