LAWRENCE, Mass. — Two teenagers, high school sweethearts, were seriously hurt by a driver who was allegedly on a suicide mission.
Oscaris Pimental, 18, and Julio Berrora, 19, were in a car on Howard Street Wednesday night when another driver smashed into them head-on and flipped their car over.
According to police, the driver claimed that the devil made him do it.
FOX25’s Malini Basu caught up with Judy Urena, the mother of Oscaris Pimental, who says her daughter is slowly starting to remember what happened.
“I could hear the helicopter and I know she went to buy something, my heart told me something was going on with my daughter,” Urena said.
Pimental had gone to Walgreens with her boyfriend, Berroa. Police said that was when 34-year-old Deybet Blanco intentionally crashed his car into theirs.
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Witnesses say moments after the crash, Blanco kept talking about the devil and saying "the devil made me do this."
He took it further while in the ambulance.
“He was talking about Taylor Swift and touching himself,” Lawrence Police Chief James Fitzpatrick said.
Witnesses ran to help after the crash on Howard Street.
It wasn’t until she got to the hospital that Urena realized how injured her daughter was.
“My daughter just went to the store to buy something, then when I see her next she is totally a different person. Mangled and tubes everywhere,” Urena said.
Doctors say Berroa, a star athlete in high school, was injured so badly he is brain dead.
“I want him to get better too. I want him to get better. I want him to get on his feet. I want to see him run together with my daughter everywhere that's all I want,” Urena said.
Police say that, not only was Blanco driving on the wrong side of the road, he was traveling more than 65 miles per hour in a 30 miles per hour zone.
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He appeared in court Thursday on charges of negligent operation of a motor vehicle and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
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