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Aug 14, 2008 4:18 pm US/Central
Police: Man On PCP Struck & Killed Elderly Man
Man Killed Well Known In Neighborhood
DALLAS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
A 79-year-old grandfather, killed by an intoxicated driver, was a familiar figure in the Oak Cliff neighborhood where he lived and died.
Workers are fixing the telephone box where the car came to rest after hitting Victor Pineda. He was crossing Kiest Boulevard at Garapan around 7:30 Wednesday night when police say an intoxicated driver hit and killed him.
Witnesses say the driver was erratic, making u-turns before hitting a car. Then he allegedly hit and killed Pineda before coming to a stop by crashing into a fence.
Police identified the driver as 27-year-old Marquise Nash. Police say Nash has previous convictions for drugs, theft and burglary.
Nash admitted to smoking a PCP dipped cigarette, police say. He showed signs of mass confusion and appeared to be hallucinating, according to police.
Nash also had his girlfriend's 5-year-old son in the backseat. As a precaution, he was taken to Children's Medical Center with minor injuries. Nash was taken to Parkland Hospital and, according to authorities, is in the intensive care unit.
Pineda was just a few blocks from his house. Neighbors say they would see him collecting cans everyday.
"I put some in this sack and have them waiting on him," said Reverend Floyd Kelly, one of Pineda's neighbors. Reverend Kelly said he had known Pineda over the last 17 years and had always given him cans. He said it was "one of the ways he made his money."
"He'd leave in the morning to go pick up his cans; come back in the evening when it get cool," said Beverly Harris, another neighbor. "He go back out and pick up his cans. You see him in the evening time coming back."
Harris said she was walking by the accident scene when she found out her neighbor was killed. "I just thought it was so sad," she said. "It really was."
When Nash is released from the hospital, police say he'll face charges of intoxication manslaughter.
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