DALLAS, TEXAS — A 66-year-old tow truck driver died Wednesday afternoon after a driver who had been drinking struck him on the side of Interstate 20 while he was fixing a flat tire. The suspect is on an immigration hold and is believed to be in the country illegally.
The crash occurred around 3:30 p.m. near Spur 408 near Mountain Creek Parkway. Guillermo Garcia had stopped on the shoulder to fix a flat tire when a SUV driven by 41-year-old Selvin Amador Morazon swerved and struck him. Garcia arrived at a hospital shortly after but did not survive.
Authorities arrested Morazon and charged him with intoxication manslaughter. He failed a sobriety test and admitted to police he had been drinking hours before the crash. Records show Morazon is on an immigration hold and is suspected of being in the country illegally.
Selvin Amador Morazon
“His Boots, His Hat, Everything Was Scattered on the Highway”
Jose Moreno-Mercado had driven out to help his friend fix the tire and witnessed the crash firsthand. He spoke to FOX 4 about what he saw and described the devastating moments that followed.
“The car passed right by and that’s when it hit him,” Moreno-Mercado said. “His boots, his hat, everything was scattered on the highway.”
Moreno-Mercado rushed to Garcia’s side and stayed with him until help arrived. “I was telling him I was going to be there whatever happens. I was going to be with him,” he said. “He put his head in my lap and I held him like this, and I said ‘Can you hear me, can you hear me?’ And he said, yeah, yeah.”
He remembered Garcia as a generous and humble man. “Guillermo was a very good, nice person. Very humble. He would help everybody,” Moreno-Mercado said.
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