Posted on 02/21/2019 5:54:59 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Pregnant mother, 32, died saving her kids from driver who 'repeatedly plowed into family of eight after he was asked to stop blowing smoke at them'
An enraged driver has been accused of intentionally plowing his car into a family of eight, killing a 32-year-old pregnant mother and injuring a father and their six children.
Police believe an argument between the driver, identified as 35-year-old Jason Mendez, and the family may have sparked the Wednesday afternoon attack at a 7-Eleven store in Haverstraw, New York.
Witnesses reported that father-of-six Shawn DeLoatch had asked Mendez not to blow smoke in the direction of his children.
Mendez then allegedly struck all eight members of the family with his Nissan Infiniti sedan, smashing them into the storefront before reversing the vehicle and driving forward again to hit the victims a second time.
All eight family members were hospitalized. The woman, Melissa Castillo DeLoatch, was later pronounced dead.
Shawn DeLoatch, 35, and the six children, ranging in age from less than a year old to 10 years old, were treated for non-life threatening injuries.
'Kids doing great up here,' the dad wrote in a Facebook post from Westchester Medical Center on Thursday.
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Drag him out of the jail and put a bullet in his skull.
After a fair trial, of course.
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Illegal?
State of New York. Hard to see how he could.
I Grew up near Haverstraw, it’s part of North Rockland. Large Latino population for as far back as I can remember. What’s this prick’s immigration status?
I volunteer to pull the switch for his electric chair.
“Illegal?”
Wondered that too but wanted one of you all to be the first to ask.
Well, I scanned the article twice, and didn’t see it mentio8. But, I’ve missed references before.
Illegal?
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The powers that be will never tell unless forced.
People like this is why people were nailed to crosses in the olden days. The idea wasn’t to just make them pay with their lives but to suffer for a long time before they died for their crimes.
Unless I missed it, there’s nothing to indicate he’s anything but native-born in this article about him.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.lohud.com/amp/2941545002
It looks like he might be legal. He had family in NY and San Antonio and moved quite often. He also had a rap sheet for disorderly behavior, especially while intoxicated. I’d give an html link, but I’m on my phone. I searched Mendez, Haverstaw.
people are so unhinged the last few yrs...
I'm probably going to get royally flamed, but the dad didn't just 'ask', he was hassling the guy about his smoking cigarettes, in his own car, and when the argument escalated, tempers flared and the guy snapped.
Was the driver's actions excusable? Absolutely not. He killed innocent people.
Should the father have hassled the guy about his smoking? Absolutely not!
That said, a lot of people are rabidly anti-smoking and are unafraid to get in someone else's face over it. Unfortunately, the father's family paid with their lives.
A 7-Eleven employee told Eyewitness News that Mendez was smoking outside the store and became enraged when the father asked him not to smoke around the kids.
An argument ensued, which the worker says came to an end when Mendez got into his car and plowed into the 7-Eleven, striking all eight family members.
Police say he then reversed the vehicle and drove forward again, striking the victims a second time.
Lock him up. . or better yet. . .the death penalty. Premeditated murder.
Don’t expect the MSM to answer THAT question!
They’ll get him for performing an abortion without a license.
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