Dad working as delivery driver killed after holding onto his car while a teenager tried to steal it: Police

A New Jersey begetter who was moving arsenic a transportation operator was killed erstwhile a teenager allegedly tried to steal his car.

Jhon Aponte Alarcon, 46, was pronounced dormant connected April 4 aft being taken to the infirmary for injuries helium suffered successful a car wreck successful Newark, New Jersey. According to the Essex County Prosecutor's Office, Alarcon was making a transportation astatine 12:45 p.m. and left his car running successful the thoroughfare portion helium brought a bundle to someone's doorstep. The unnamed teenage fishy saw the car and allegedly got wrong and started to thrust away.

Alarcon ran backmost to his car and held onto it portion the fishy kept driving. The fishy past crashed into a parked car, causing Alarcon's car to flip implicit and crush the begetter of 3 sons.

Prosecutors said that the fishy ran distant from the country connected foot. He was arrested connected Tuesday and charged with first-degree murder, carjacking, vehicular homicide, leaving the country of an mishap resulting successful death, endangering an injured victim, and theft of a centrifugal vehicle. Due to his age, his sanction has not been released.

One of Alarcon's sons, Debyd Aponte, spoke to New York-based NBC affiliate WNBC astir his family's loss, telling the presumption that they did not initially cognize each the details astir what happened to their father. Aponte said his household was lone told that his begetter was successful a car accident.

Aponte told WNBC, "It's been truly difficult. My dada was a hard-working man, helium wasn't doing thing bad. He was working, trying to supply for us, erstwhile this [tragedy] happens."

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On a GoFundMe page started to rise wealth for ceremonial expenses, Alarcon's lad wrote, "This has wholly shattered our world. One infinitesimal helium was here, and the adjacent helium was gone. Nothing could person prepared america for this benignant of pain."

Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II encouraged anyone with much accusation astir the lawsuit to telephone their extremity line: 1-877-TIPS-4EC oregon 1-877-847-7432.