At Methodist Dallas Medical Center, the family of Lisa Marie Martinez is preparing to say goodbye three weeks after she was critically injured while riding her bicycle through Oak Cliff.<\/p>\n
The difficult moment comes as Dallas police announce an arrest in the hit-and-run crash that left Martinez with broken legs, a broken pelvis and arm, and internal injuries.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to make a decision to take her off the ventilator,\u201d Martinez\u2019s sister, Eve Martinez Zamago, said.<\/p>\n
Zamago said her sister simply could not overcome her injuries.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe doesn\u2019t deserve to suffer no more, to be in pain. And us as a family, we agree that we\u2019re going to go ahead and go home to glory,\u201d Zamago said.<\/p>\n
According to an arrest warrant, 45-year-old Octavio Ramirez was driving behind Martinez in the southbound lanes of the 1200 block of North Westmoreland on Aug. 24 when he struck her bicycle and fled the scene.<\/p>\n
Investigators used Flock cameras to match Ramirez\u2019s car, which was seen driving nearby about three hours later with debris from the crash site.<\/p>\n
Police said Ramirez admitted to being involved in the collision.<\/p>\n
For Martinez\u2019s siblings and children, the arrest represents a step toward justice.<\/p>\n
Now, as the family tackles medical expenses and prepares for an unplanned funeral, they are focused on keeping Martinez\u2019s memory alive for the next generation.<\/p>\n
“She can rest well now at peace,” Zamago said.<\/p>\n
This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC DFW. AI tools helped convert the story into a digital article, and an NBC DFW journalist edited it again before publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Methodist Dallas Medical Center, the family of Lisa Marie Martinez is preparing to say goodbye three weeks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-440657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}