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The 32-year-old pregnant mother of six who was killed by an enraged driver outside a New York 7-Eleven will be laid to rest Thursday
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Police said a driver intentionally rammed into the family of Melissa DeLoatch after an argument last week in Garnerville
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DeLoatch’s mother told News 4 that her only daughter had thrown herself in front of the car to shield her children and called her a ‘hero’
The pregnant 32-year-old mother of six who was run down last week in front of her family outside a New York 7-Eleven will be laid to rest Thursday.
The funeral for Melissa DeLoatch will follow her wake at St. Ann’s Church in Nyack from 9 to 11 a.m.
DeLoatch was killed when an enraged driver plowed into her and her family. DeLoatch’s mother, Joan Christopher, told News 4 that her only daughter had thrown herself in front of the car to shield her children, who were all hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries along with their father.
The man who allegedly deliberately rammed into the family outside the convenience store on Central Highway in Garnerville last Wednesday afternoon, 35-year-old Jason Mendez, has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and other crimes. Witnesses said he plowed into the family, then reversed and ran over them again, after the father asked him not to blow cigarette smoke in the kids’ direction. He was arrested at gunpoint when he refused to drop a knife.
Driver Plows Into Family of 7 Outside Store
A vacate order was posted on the store following the deadly wreck, and people were stopping by to leave flowers and candles. Christopher said the support is much needed as the DeLoatch children try to pick up the pieces and move in with their lives without their mother.
Mendez’s attorney said in court that his client had just lost his cellphone repair job a week ago. Mendez, himself, said nothing to reporters as he was led from a police car into the courthouse in handcuffs.
Source : Nbcnewyork
