Multiple sources are reporting that police in Menifee responded to a report of a burglary in progress on the 27000 block of Hemingway Court around 4:54 pm Monday.
A car driven by a woman believed to be involved in the burglary was seen leaving the area, and fled when the cops attempted to pull her over.
The driver was headed west on Holland Road at a high rate of speed when she ran the red light at Holland and Evans Road, striking the boy, who was riding north on Evans Road.
The victim, identified as 13-year-old Menifee resident Cody Villatoro, died at the scene, despite the efforts of police and paramedics.
The driver continued to flee until her car became disabled, at which point police arrested the woman, 21-year old Temecula resident Melody Valdez, on suspicion of evading police and homicide, among other charges.
So letās repeat. Villatoro was riding with the green light, and apparently did nothing wrong other than share the planet with a driver wanted by police for a nonviolent property crime. But now heās dead, because of a driverās bad decision to flee and the copsā choice to continue the chase.##
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Why are the police getting into Fast & Furious chases for fucking non violent crimes?
Theyāre full of insecurity and they couldnāt beat their wives at the time
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21-year old Temecula resident Melody Valdez
Thatās awful. Barely not a child herself and she has to live with that for the rest of her life.
Jesus. I canāt imagine having murdered someone at that age. I mean obviously itād wreck me at any age, but I didnāt have any kind of coping skills or support system at 21 and if sheās trying to rob houses then I canāt imagine she does, either.
Itās a tragic situation all around. I wish we had better options for handling crimes like these so that maybe this could have been avoided.
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I see some folks discussing the role cops had in this awful situation, whether chasing or not chasing could have prevented the death of the little boy. Iād like to draw attention to another idea, though - the idea that this could have been prevented at the root. Why was a 21-year-old trying to rob a house? If sheās struggling for money, then we need stronger supports so that people like her arenāt placed in a position of needing to commit a burglary to stay afloat. If she has some kind of mental struggle, then she needed mental health support, therapy, etc. If she did it just because sheās 21 and thought itād be fun, why does she think that way? What need or lack was she trying to remedy by doing a crime?
The whole system is corrupted through and through. Letās consider how we can build new and better systems so that police arenāt needed in the first place.
I donāt think most people would want to live in a world without struggle, and theft is one of the simplest forms of struggle.
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