Police will charge a South Carolina man next week with criminal homicide in the vehicle death of his girlfriend, Lackawanna County District Attorney Brian Gallagher said Friday.<\/p>\n
Police have already charged Joseph Garcia, 18, of Sumter, South Carolina, with aggravated assault in the death of Rose Hernandez, 18, of 1131 W. Locust St.<\/p>\n
Hernandez died as she tried to get in Garcia\u2019s car and he sped away Monday afternoon on Roundwoods Place, an alley behind her home, police said.<\/p>\n
Hernandez ‘wanted to leave with him’<\/p>\n
Garcia and Hernandez argued mid-afternoon Monday \u201cbecause she wanted to leave with him\u201d but he didn\u2019t have enough room for her in his black 2014 Chevrolet Camaro, city detectives Michael Schultz and Jill Foley wrote in an arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n
They went back into her home, but when he tried to leave again, Hernandez followed him out to the car.<\/p>\n
\u201cGarcia said he pulled away and Hernandez tried to grab the passenger door as he accelerated,\u201d Schultz and Foley wrote in the affidavit. \u201cGarcia said he stopped at the top of the alley.\u201d<\/p>\n
When he stopped, Garcia told police, \u201cHernandez hit the back of another vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police: Garcia left, but came back<\/p>\n
Garcia saw Hernandez on the ground, drove \u201caround the block and came back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Garcia told police he lifted Hernandez off the road \u201cand took her to his vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe went into Hernandez\u2019s house and lied to the family and said Hernandez was injured because she fell out of his vehicle,\u201d the detectives wrote.<\/p>\n
‘Tire marks on her clothing’<\/p>\n
Dispatched about 3:40 p.m., police found Hernandez lying in the alley bleeding from her head and face.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a large amount of blood on the pavement,\u201d the affidavit says. \u201cThe female had injuries consistent with being struck by a motor vehicle. She had tire marks on her clothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
They also found Garcia covered in blood and a lot of blood on the car\u2019s hood and its driver\u2019s side window and door. The front bumper had damage \u201cthat caused it to fold inward,\u201d according to the affidavit, though the affidavit doesn\u2019t say that was from the car hitting Hernandez.<\/p>\n
She grabbed at the car door<\/p>\n
Surveillance video shows \u201ca physical altercation\u201d between Garcia and Hernandez outside the car.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe appears to be attempting to grab the passenger side door area of the vehicle,\u201d the affidavit says. \u201cThe vehicle … then speeds away, driven by Garcia, going westbound in Roundwoods Place and the victim is no longer seen.\u201d<\/p>\n
The video shows Garcia trying to pick up Hernandez and carry her to his car.<\/p>\n
An autopsy Tuesday showed Hernandez died of blunt head trauma, County Coroner Tim Rowland said. He has not ruled on the manner of death.<\/p>\n
Garcia remains held without bail in the Lackawanna County Prison. He has a preliminary hearing scheduled for 10:45 a.m. on Jan. 12, his 19th birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police will charge a South Carolina man next week with criminal homicide in the vehicle death of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-76513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}