Mom hoping hit-and-operate driver who killed her son turns themselves in

HELOTES, Texas – A San Antonio mother is hoping and praying the hit-and-operate driver accountable for killing her son in Helotes will flip on their own in.

Balerie Sanchez reported her son, Jerry Sanchez, 36, experienced many programs in his lifestyle.

“He was a comic,” Balerie Sanchez stated. “He usually made me giggle and was seeking to support anybody he could. He was constantly anxious about me and was truly functioning tough to get his individual put, and he mentioned he preferred me to move in with him. He was placing in all of these hours at his occupation mainly because he didn’t want me battling.”

The mother reported although her son had his struggles, he was working by them to be with his little ones once again.

“He was striving very difficult to improve his life so he would be in a position to see his young ones,” Sanchez stated. “Those 5 youngsters have been his pride and pleasure.”

Sanchez stated she received a textual content from Jerry to choose him up from work on the evening her son was killed.

“I informed him to wait for me at his job and that I was on my way,” Sanchez claimed. “He did not get a probability to see that concept.”

Sanchez stated Jerry would usually start strolling until she met up with him if he was not as well exhausted.

“He cherished to training, so he commenced going for walks that night time,” Sanchez mentioned. “When I acquired to his operate at 8:36, I texted him, ‘Hey, I am out below at the property. Where by are you?’ I was contacting him, but it went to voicemail. I assume he either turned his cellular phone off or it obtained destroyed when he was hit since they told me it was in his pocket, damaged.”

Helotes law enforcement stated it was close to that time that Jerry was struck so tough by a automobile that his overall body slid from Freeway 16 in the vicinity of the Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church.

“I handed him up a few instances not recognizing his physique was there,” Sanchez stated. “I even swerved going that way for the reason that I saw clothing in the road, and I did not want to hit it. These clothes ended up becoming the laundry he had with him and had prepared to wash Friday.”

After hunting for her son for a when, Sanchez said she assumed he caught a journey with a buddy.

“My ideas for Friday morning — I was heading to go to Kohls to get (Jerry) his Christmas present and then to get back again to his perform to make sure he showed up Ok,” Sanchez said. “Instead, I obtained a call from someone expressing he didn’t show up at do the job, but that there were police down the street.”

Law enforcement reported a passerby found out Jerry’s body.

“I broke down because when I got there, there was only one particular officer, and I told him I considered the particular person uncovered was my son,” Sanchez mentioned. “He asked my title, and I gave him my son’s name, and he explained, ‘Ma’am, your son was involved in a strike-and-operate, and he didn’t make it.”

Sanchez stated she wishes justice and closure for her son.

“It just makes me furious. How can you depart anyone out in this article to die right away? And then it was chilly, and it rained on him. I can have an understanding of if they assumed it was an animal, a deer, or anything,” Sanchez explained. “How can you not see it was a individual? They say he was up there. They had to have witnessed him. I do know he died immediately. They just told me this. He was found facial area-down.”

At this time, law enforcement do not have a description of the auto involved. The loved ones is asking everyone with any details to speak to Helotes police.

“What if this was your baby, your sister, your brother, your mother or grandma? You wouldn’t like that,” Sanchez stated. “I really don’t want this on anybody.”