David Barajas, Texas man, charged in fatal shooting of suspected drunk driver who killed his sons, authorities say.
An Alvin father remained in the Brazoria County Jail Monday, charged with murder in the alleged revenge killing of a drunken driver who plowed into his truck, killing his two young sons last December.
David Barajas Sr., 31, a construction worker, is being held in lieu of $450,000 bail in the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Jose Inez Banda minutes after the Dec. 7 crash that claimed the lives of Barajas' 11- and 12-year-old sons.
"The whole incident is extremely tragic," said Brazoria County sheriff's lead investigator, Dominick Sanders. "The grand jury reviewed it and has indicted him for murder."
Tests showed Banda's blood alcohol was twice the legal limit when his Chevrolet Malibu rear-ended the Barajas' family's Ford 250 truck that had run out of gas on an unlit county road near Alvin, investigators said. The inebriated driver failed to swerve or even apply his brakes before plowing into the truck and crushing Barajas' sons, David Jr., 12, and Caleb, 11.
The boys had been helping their father push their disabled truck and were less than 150 yards from their driveway when they were hit. Caleb was pronounced dead at the scene, and David Jr. died shortly after arrival at Memorial Hermann Hospital. Their father escaped serious injury.
Barajas' wife, Cindy, and their 8-year-old daughter and 3-month-old son, had remained seated inside the truck and were not hurt.
I don't feel he should be charged with murder. I don't think anyone who just witnessed their children killed would be in any rational state of mind.
ReplyDeleteI would have killed the drunken piece of shit too
ReplyDeleteI don't know how Cindy & David function each day. God bless them. I can tell you that a gunshot to the head (whomever it was from) would not have been enough for me.
ReplyDeleteThough it doesn’t justifies his actions but I can understand the pain and agony of losing your kids due to cupidity of drunk driver. When I worked with a Los Angeles DUI attorney, I saw so many cases where drunk drivers were reason why so many innocent people got killed on roads.
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