RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: REMEMBERING THE HERNANDEZ CHILDREN: Whittier family members were killed in that horrific crash on the 5 Freeway. Our Local Community Mourns.

Monday, April 12, 2010

REMEMBERING THE HERNANDEZ CHILDREN: Whittier family members were killed in that horrific crash on the 5 Freeway. Our Local Community Mourns.

The Hernandez Children from Whittier

Xochitl Hernandez, 5, and Cynthia Hernandez, 9, and Edgar Hernandez, 8.

Hernandez family photo. Also killed was their cousin Luis Villegas, age 12
from the Oakland Bay area who was in the process of moving here.

By Randy Economy
http://www.economy4abc.blogspot.com/
Monday, April 12, 2010
6:30 p.m.

(Whittier, CA)

SANTA CLARITA -- Two people have been arrested this afternoon in regards to the 5 Freeway crash in the Newhall Pass that has left five people dead, including four children, three being from Whittier.

The crash, which occurred during a downpour, was reported at 12:14 a.m. Monday in the southbound lanes of the Newhall Pass, near the junction with the Antelope (14) Valley Freeway. The driver of a red Mazda pickup lost control, spun into the center divider and overturned at about midnight. Victor Jarillo, was arrested for vehicular manslaughter for allegedly driving without a license, and his passenger was taken into custody on suspicion of providing false information to officers, according to officials with the California Highway Patrol.

The crash killed four children, three who lived here in a quiet East Whittier neighborhood and their cousin from the Oakland Bay area.

Tonight, the community is just beginning to cope with the tragic news. Those identified by the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office and California Highway Patrol are:

Injured:

Jessica Milan, a 27-year-old passenger in the Nissan, was hospitalized in critical condition.
Francisco Enciso, 25, of Daly City, suffered major injuries and was the driver in the car with Millan.
Joana Avina, 27, of Los Angeles, minor injured
Alberto Jarillo, 34, minor injuries
Jesus Jarillo, 2, minor injuries
Emmanual Jarillo, 1, minor injuries

Killed:

Xochlit Hernandez, age 5 of Whittier
Cynthia Hernandez, 8, Whittier
Edgard Hernandez, 9, Whittier
Luis Villegas, 12, of Daly City/Oakland (Cousin of the Hernandez children. It is being reported that Villegas was moving to Whittier to live with his cousins).
John Blackburn, 54, of Frasier Park (driver in another car involved)

Traffic was shut down for nearly 9 hours in the Newhall Pass today after a multi-vehicle pileup on the rain-soaked roadway.

Two of the Hernandez children, Cynthia and Edgard, attended elementary school in the East Whittier City School District. I will give more details later.

Tonight, the community here in Whittier is praying for those who were lost today. A Memorial Fund is already being established. I will post the details as soon as they are available.

If you have a special memory about the Hernandez Family, please feel free to drop me a note to RREconomy@aol.com or hit my comment section.

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1 comment:

Debbie said...: Dear Randy - Today I went to Rose Hills to plant flowers on my grsndmothers' grave. I couldn't help but notice all the flowers on the graves just below my grandmothers. I went to look to see who it was and realized it was 3 young children. The Hernandez children. I was touched by their deaths and I spent about an hour planting the flowers that were left in pots on their graves. Someone has been their recently to leave the flowers. As a mother, my heart goes out to the family and to the children. I'm sure their mother will wonder who planted the flowers. I hope she won't be angry with me. If you have contact with her, tell her it was done with love.; Saturday, May 14, 2011 5:34:00 PM

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You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”