A 10-year-old Midland, Texas boy lost his life walking home from school last week after an illegal border crosser who was previously deported five times allegedly killed the child in a hit and run.
Rogelio Ortiz-Olivas, 50, struck pedestrian Alex Wise Jr. last Thursday as the boy made his trek home from school, say police. Ortiz-Olivas drove his black truck around other stopped vehicles just before he hit Wise. Wise, who was in critical condition, was quickly air-flighted to the Texas panhandle to receive extra medical care. He died a day later.
Ortiz-Olivas, who went by Juan Ortiz Perez at the time of the incident, was eventually arrested after an officer at a traffic stop spotted his damaged hood bearing an “impression of a skull.” He was charged with a third-degree felony of “hit and run, accident causing death” for “driver negligence” and failing to stop and render aid.
Local arrest records confirm the Midland County sheriff’s office is holding Ortiz on a $100,000 bond for “collision involving serious bodily injury,” “driving while intoxicated,” and another immigration detainer. Ortiz-Olivas was previously deported five times but successfully re-crossed President Joe Biden’s open border and resided on the edge of the Texas oil town.
“He deserves everything he gets,” Wise’s mother Sykia Benson wrote on Facebook shortly after law enforcement announced its arrest of Ortiz-Olivas.
A few days later, Benson celebrated word of Ortiz-Olivas’ pending indictment as “good new[s].”
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