Friends and family gathered Thursday at a makeshift memorial to honor a young couple, eagerly awaiting the arrival of their baby boy, who was killed in a car accident following a police pursuit in Pomona.<\/p>\n
Jennifer Loera-Zarco, 25, and her 26-year-old boyfriend, Marc Trejo Saldivar, had just been celebrating Jennifer\u2019s birthday days earlier and were preparing to welcome their baby boy, who was due to arrive on April 20.<\/p>\n
Their families say the sudden loss has left them in shock.<\/p>\n
\u201cSurreal. Like it doesn\u2019t feel like. I feel like I\u2019m dreaming,\u201d said Jennifer\u2019s sister, Amber Torres. \u201cIt\u2019s a bad dream. I\u2019m gonna wake up and she\u2019s gonna be here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jennifer was the youngest of four sisters. Two of them, Amber Torres and Andrea Solorio, described her as loving, caring and full of personality.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was smart, intelligent, if you let her tell it, she was the prettiest of all the sisters,\u201d Solorio said.<\/p>\n
Her sisters say she was deeply devoted to her family.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was so sweet nice caring. She was the best aunt, daughter, sister,\u201d Solorio said.<\/p>\n
Just weeks before the crash, the family had gathered to celebrate Jennifer\u2019s 25th birthday and the upcoming arrival of her baby.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just celebrated her birthday on the 27th, and two weeks before that we threw her a baby shower,\u201d Torres said. \u201cSo all we were doing was taking her shopping for last-minute things she didn\u2019t get at the shower.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the Pomona Police Department, officers responded to a domestic violence call shortly after 9:30 p.m. Wednesday near East 10th and South Elm Street.<\/p>\n
Police say officers were speaking with one person involved in the incident when the other person returned home in a truck. Authorities identified that person as 31-year-old Marshall Judson.<\/p>\n
Police say Judson intentionally drove into a parked patrol vehicle and then fled the scene, leading officers on a two-mile pursuit.<\/p>\n