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SAN DIEGO -- A Las Vegas family was forced to do the unimaginable, saying goodbye to their 6-year-old son in San Diego who will never make it home from their family vacation.
“The physical pain is nothing compared to the emotional pain that we’ve been going through,” said Moses Sanchez, father of Ian Sanchez.
The Sanchez family was on their way home from Mexico to Las Vegas in the early hours of Monday morning. They had made it just north of San Diego County in Murrieta when they say they hit a driver suspected to be under the influence, who had already hit at least one other car and the center median ahead of them on the freeway.
“We drove at night because the boys are asleep, it’s a calmer ride. Next thing you know this happened. It happened and our lives completely changed,” said Sanchez.
Six-year-old Ian Sanchez suffered the worst injuries, including a brain laceration and stroke. He was airlifted to Rady Children’s Hospital here in San Diego, but doctors were unable to control the brain hemorrhage.
On Friday, Ian’s family began the unimaginable process of declaring him brain dead, but wha...
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