SAN DIEGO -- A San Diego man will stand trial for a collision that killed a toddler last summer.
Forty-six-year-old Margarito Angeles Vargas is charged with murder, DUI and hit-and-run, accused of killing one-year-old Annalee Rodarte in a collision that happened in the evening of September 24 in City Heights.
Family members told FOX 5 Annalee followed siblings as they ran from their grandmother’s home through an alley into the street.
Prosecutors say Vargas was speeding in an SUV down Redwood Street when he hit the little girl, then drove off, leaving her dying on the ground. She had a traumatic brain injury and later died at the hospital.
Home surveillance video captured the SUV as it went down the street.
One of the most compelling pieces of evidence is from a neighbor who said he was working on his car in ...