'My little brother screaming': 7-year-old boy and his mother sleeping in bed killed when 18-year-old woman smashes her vehicle through their house, cops say

A Texas parent and her young lad were successful their chamber astatine nighttime erstwhile abruptly a conveyance driven by an 18-year-old pistillate crashed done the wall, sidesplitting them both, authorities say.

Gracie Yates faces 2 charges of criminally negligent homicide, Erath County jailhouse records reviewed by Law&Crime show. The victims were 49-year-old Barbara Rocha and 7-year-old Alex Aaron Rocha, household members told determination Fox affiliate KDFW.

During the aboriginal greeting hours of Sunday, the parent and lad were successful their chamber connected the 200 artifact of North Ollie Street successful Stephenville, Texas, which is located astir 100 miles southwest of Dallas. Suddenly, a conveyance "left the roadway" and crashed done the home, states a quality merchandise from the Stephenville Police Department.

"'All I heard is simply a crash, I went successful the room, and each you tin perceive is my small member screaming and my ma praying,'" Raul Rocha, an older member of Alex Rocha, recounted what their different member who lived astatine the location told him. "That's what helium said … I person that stuck successful the backmost of my caput close now."

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Barbara Rocha and Alex Rocha were rushed to an country hospital, but they some died from their injuries.

Yates is alleged to person been the idiosyncratic driving the conveyance that crashed. The quality merchandise does not notation anyone other being wrong her vehicle.

A GoFundMe posted by a self-proclaimed person of Barbara Rocha's hubby said "a drunk operator crashed" done the house. The merchandise from constabulary makes nary notation of intoxicant oregon drugs playing a portion successful the incident.

The antheral is "now without a location and is struggling to screen the ceremonial costs for his woman and son," the fundraiser adds. "He's besides successful urgent request of impermanent lodging and enactment for different contiguous needs arsenic helium tries to rebuild."

Yates was booked into the Erath County Jail connected Sunday, and a justice acceptable her enslaved astatine $14,500. She was released connected Tuesday, records show.