Thread by @DavidBegnaud

I just found out about the story yesterday.
10-year-old Victor Peterzen was hit by a Jeep driver in Houston six months ago and he died because of it.
Nothing has happened to the driver.
Nothing.
I’m asking why, starting with @houstonpolice.

“Victor was riding northbound on Maux Street when he failed to yield the right-of-way at a stop sign and was struck by the Jeep traveling westbound on Knoboak Drive, according to the Houston Police Department,” reports the Houston Chronicle. houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…

The Chronicle also noted that the case was going to be presented to a grand jury because it involved a juvenile.

Victor’s mother, who was attorney in her native, Venezuela has taken to social media in recent weeks to raise awareness and plead for justice. The mother told me there is a witness who saw the driver distracted while driving. She says the driver will speak to police police.

UPDATE: I spoke with Houston police. They quickly looked into this. They claim the case has been held up for months because a witness was changing his story. They now say they met with that male witness again today, and they are now going to deliver the case to the grand jury.

The timing is interesting. This comes after the child's mother became vocal on social media asking for help with her son's case. She says it attracted the attention of Houston Police Chief @ArtAcevedo who she says reached out to her and said he would look into it. He did.

The mother appreciates the chief doing that. Bottom Line: Houston police claim that that Victor, the 10 year old victim, was at fault because the driver has the right of way.
They say the driver was not impaired.

I asked if the driver was on her phone. Police told me they took screen shots of the driver's phone and what they saw led them to believe that the driver was NOT using her phone. A further forensic examination of the phone was NOT done, according to police.

Such an examination could reveal whether she was surfing the internet at the time of the crash, etc.
One obvious question remains unanswered: how could the woman not see the boy. He was on a bike. She was driving 30 or so miles per hour, police say. How could she not see him?