Jorge González Hernández is accused of a drunk driving homicide

• Jorge González Hernández, 22, was driving drunk when he caused a fatal accident
• Guadalupe Macías, 48 ​​years old and mother of 3 children, was hit in her car by a van
• González Hernández is a ‘Dreamer’ immigrant and could face a sentence of up to 20 years in prison

Jorge Jesús González Hernández is

accused of reckless homicide for causing a drunk driving accident and killing a woman.

González Hernández, 22, is being held in the prison of the Hidalgo County in Edinburg, Texas, accused of having killed Guadalupe Macías, a 48-year-old mother of a family.

According to McAllen Police Department (MPD, for its acronym in English) González Hernández was driving drunk when he collided head-on into Macias’ car in a spectacular accident.

González Hernández faces a crime that is considered serious, according to Texas State Penal Code and anyone found guilty of this crime in a trial is punished with a sentence of 5 to 20 years in prison.

The accident report, consulted by MundoHispánico, occurred at dawn on Saturday, October 31, precisely on Halloween night, in McAllen, a city in southeastern Texas almost on the border with Mexico.

According to witnesses interviewed by the MPD, around 5:53 a.m. that Saturday a red Chevrolet Silverado truck drove in the wrong direction on South Ware Road.

In a gray Chevrolet Equinox truck, Guadalupe Macías was traveling at normal speed and in the correct direction of the street in the left lane.

Macías did not have time to avoid the blow, when the Chevrolet Silverado truck that González Hernández was driving crashed down on him. The coup between the two cars was brutal, according to witnesses.

The truck that Guadalupe Macías was driving was destroyed across the entire front, to such an extent that the vehicle was just a pile of twisted iron and broken glass that trapped the woman’s body.

Some drivers who stopped to help and see the injured were the first to call the authorities’ number to report the brutal accident.

Guadalupe Macías and Jorge González Hernández, both injured, were rushed to a McAllen hospital to be treated for their injuries.

However, less than an hour after arriving at the emergency room, Guadalupe Macías died when doctors were fighting to save her life in surgery due to the severity of her critical condition.

Jorge Jesús González Hernández was also treated for his injuries and after two weeks of being hospitalized, the doctors released him on Friday, November 13, but his problems did not end there.

MPD agents determined, during González Hernández’s stay in the hospital, that the man had consumed alcoholic beverages before causing the accident in which Guadalupe Macías died.

When González Hernández left the hospital, agents from the MPD’s Vehicular Crimes Division arrested him on a serious charge of reckless homicide for Macías’s death.

The Hidalgo County Prosecutor’s Office discovered, when the man was already detained, that González Hernández was a ‘Dreamer’, since he was in the United States as an immigrant under the protection of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA, for acronym) program in English).

Judge Noé González, who is handling the González Hernández case, originally had set the defendant a bond of $ 350,000 to face his trial in freedom, but later lowered it to $ 100,000.

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The judge’s decision to reduce Jorge González Hernández’s bail provoked a written protest by prosecutor Vance González arguing that the boy being a ‘Dreamer’ could escape justice in the United States.

For his part, Billy Chapa, González Hernández’s defense attorney, argued that his client did not intend to escape, since he had come to live in Texas with his family 20 years ago and had lived his entire life in the southern United States.

The lawyer upheld his decision and the bail for González Hernández continues at 100,000 dollars, if the man wants to face his process in freedom.

However, as of this writing, bail had not been paid and «Dreamer» González Hernández continues to be detained in the Hidalgo County jail, awaiting his next hearing.

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The documents of the case do not detail where the boy originated from. The only thing that is revealed, in his statement before the judge, that he is married, his wife is expecting their first child and has his own kitchen condiments business, which he sells to restaurants in southeast Texas.

The victim Guadalupe Macías, whom her family and friends affectionately called ‘Lupita’, was a mother from southeast Texas and the daughter of immigrants.

The woman’s body was left in such a state that her own sisters asked the authorities to cover it, especially the face, when they were handed over so that their children would not remember their totally disfigured mother.

Guadalupe Macías was the mother of three children, was married and had four sisters who have become activists after her death, against people who drive under the influence of alcohol and now cry out for justice for the death of the woman.

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