Girl ejected from SUV, father abandons children in crash
WFAA
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:13 AM
Updated yesterday at 2:04 AM

DALLAS - Police are searching for a man who abandoned three of his children after getting into a wreck, which ejected one of the children from the car onto the street.

At about 11 p.m. Thursday, 34-year-old Miguel Torres Sr. apparently lost control of his Ford Expedition and crashed into a pole, sending the SUV into a spin in the 4400 block of Lawnview Avenue in Dallas. His 5-year-old daughter, who was one of four children inside the vehicle, was ejected from the SUV and landed in the middle of the road in her car seat.

Police said Torres left the child in the street and drove about one mile to a park, where he parked and left his 6-year-old and 9-year-old sons inside the SUV. Torres then fled on foot, taking his 11-month-old girl, Emma, and later dropping her off at his mother-in-law's home, where he was picked up by an unknown person.

"He just gave her the baby and she was full of blood," said Olgalivia Salazar, the children's aunt. "She didn't know what happened and thought the worst."

Family members said Torres had been deported and told to stay out of the country, but came back. Torres also has a criminal background that includes burglary and drug possession.

Nine-year-old boy Miguel Jr., who was not injured, was able to flag down help for his brother Thomas, who suffered a serious gash to the head during the wreck.

"They said [Miguel Jr.] was screaming for his dad and his dad just kept going," Salazar said.

Neighbors who heard the crash said they were shocked to find the 5-year-old girl, Mia, in the middle of the road.

"She just kept crying and crying," said Kayla Rose, who lives near the site where the young girl was ejected. "And then, she tried to get up and walk and we wouldn't let her walk."

The injured children were taken to Children's Medical Center in Dallas. A family member said Thomas is in critical condition and suffered severe head trauma. He had a three-hour surgery on Friday.

"He had a fracture to his skull all the way down, broke his nose and now they found out he had a glass shoved in his eye and they don't know if he's going to be permanently blind from that eye," Salazar said.

His sister Mia is also in the intensive care unit and suffered serious injuries.

Miguel Jr. told authorities his father was drinking heavily that night, police said.

Authorities said they plan on charging the man with two cases of injury to a child and one case of abandonment.

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damn dude

Something similar happened near us recently.

Brookfield — A man who fled on foot from the scene of a fatal traffic crash Saturday on U.S. Highway 45 was arrested around 8:40 p.m. after police fired tear gas into a home to end a standoff that had lasted several hours.

The 25-year-old suspect from Milwaukee was found hiding in the basement of the Brookfield home, Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. said. Officers from the Milwaukee County SWAT team searched the home and arrested the man.

One officer was cut by broken glass when entering the home. Tear gas shells were fired into the home about 7 p.m., after officers lost communication with the suspect, Clarke said.

After fleeing the crash site on northbound Highway 45 at Burleigh Road in Milwaukee County, the man ran west through several neighborhoods with police in pursuit. The suspect was confronted by a homeowner on Mayfair Drive who observed him in the yard. Clarke said the suspect "bull rushed" past the man and entered the home.

The suspect ordered the occupants out of the home, locking himself in.

A woman at the scene Saturday night said she is married to the suspect and that she had been in the vehicle at the time of the crash, which occurred about 2:30 p.m. Saturday. She said her 8-year-old son died in the crash.

The boy was not wearing a seat belt, Clarke said.

The woman's husband is the boy's stepfather. A 3-year-old girl, the man's daughter, also was a passenger in the vehicle.

When officers found the man in the home, he was bleeding from wounds sustained in the crash and taken to a hospital, Clarke said.

The sheriff said the man had a criminal record in Milwaukee and Waukesha counties, including convictions for car theft, aggravated battery and drugs.

Clarke gave no other details about the man or the boy and would not confirm their identities.

The man's wife said she came to the scene because her husband "needs me right now."

The woman said she didn't know why her husband fled from the crash scene.

She said he had been driving and apparently was about to miss the Burleigh exit when he turned the wheel sharply and rolled the vehicle, she said.

Her son was riding in the back seat and was killed, she said, adding that the boy was her only child.

She said she came to the scene to persuade police to let her talk to her husband by phone.

"He needs me right now," she said. "I don't want to lose them both."

Asked what she'd say if she could talk to him, she said she'd tell him the crash wasn't his fault, and that she'd say, "Baby, please come out."

The home he took over was two doors from my cousin's house.  She spent 5 hours barricaded in her basement with her son and 3 grandchildren at the request of the police.