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Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Yahoo
9-Year-Old Boy Dead, Twin Sister Injured After Pickup Truck Hit Them Outside Elementary School: ‘My Little Angel'
An adult and three children were hit by a pickup truck near Felix Botello Elementary School in Dallas, according to police Police said 9-year-old Jose Garcia Ledesma died Two other children, including Jose's twin sister Keyla, were transported to the hospital in 'critical but stable condition"A boy is dead and two other children are injured after being struck by a vehicle outside a Texas elementary school, according to officials. Dallas Police Department Assistant Chief Catrina Shead said in a press conference, shared by WFAA-TV, that the three children and an adult were struck by a pickup truck near Felix Botello Elementary School in Dallas. She said police responded to the incident at around 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 22. Police shared on X at the time that it was 'investigating a major accident in the 200 block of south Marsalis Avenue.' Shead said that the adult and three children who had been hit by the car on the scene were transported to nearby hospitals by Dallas Fire Rescue. One of the children died from the injuries sustained in the incident and the two other kids were in 'critical but stable condition.' The adult was transported in 'stable condition.' The boy who died is 9-year-old Jose Garcia Ledesma, according to WFAA-TV, which cited the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. The Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment. Shead added that the driver involved in the incident stopped after the incident, and it 'does not appear' that there was 'speeding involved.' Jose's mother Deyaneira Ledesma told KXAS-TV that she had been walking with her twins, Jose and Keyla, and another student back to their apartment complex across from the elementary school when they were struck by a car. She told the outlet that she had looked both ways before crossing but had not been at a crosswalk. Deyaneira told KXAS-TV that her daughter Keyla suffered a broken leg and hip. In a translated post from the outlet, she described her son as her 'little angel,' her 'greatest love' and her 'everything.' The family has also started fundraising for funeral costs on On the website, the family wrote: 'A student at Felix Botello Elementary, Jose found happiness in the simple things—playing soccer, splashing in water, and dancing. Known for his vibrant personality, he will be remembered as an energetic dancer who always brought a smile to those around him. Jose's memory will live on in the hearts of all who knew and loved him.' A vigil was held for Jose on Friday, May 23, at Felix Botello Elementary School, according to WFAA-TV. One of the parents at the school, Cynthia Rocha, described Jose's death as 'very sad" to the outlet, and called for changes to be made to make the area safer. "It's not so much the kids. It's the cars," said Rocha of the traffic on South Marsalis Avenue. "They get off the freeway and they go. Or they're about to get on the freeway and they go fast. We don't have any speed bumps. We have one crossing guard. But we do need some change." Read the original article on People
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Yahoo
MISSING: GCPD asking for help locating missing 15-year-old
GARDEN CITY, Ga. (WSAV) – The Garden City Police Department (GCPD) is asking for the public's assistance to locate a missing 15-year-old juvenile. Keyla Garcia was last seen at her residence in Garden City on May 19, 2025, at around 11:30 p.m., wearing white shorts, sandals, and an unknown color shirt. Keyla is a Hispanic female, 5'2', about 115 pounds, with dark brown/black hair and brown eyes. If you have any information on Keyla's location, please call 911 or the Garden City Police Department. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Los Angeles Times
21-04-2025
- General
- Los Angeles Times
L.A.'s abundant fruit trees, celebrated with style
When I first moved to L.A., I was doing a lot of walks around my neighborhood. I used to live in Pico Union, and then I moved to Echo Park, and now I live in Historic Filipinotown, but everywhere I've lived, I've always done a lot of walking, and I noticed pretty quickly how abundant the land was. There were so many fruit trees everywhere, and I was just really inspired by that. I remember the first tree that I ever picked from was a lemon tree right off the Rampart exit on the 101, and I marked it on my Google Maps, so I would remember that I could come back there for lemons. Ever since then, I've been marking fruit on my map, and now I have a crazy map where you can't see streets, you can't see any highways, because it's just blue flags everywhere. I feel like a collector in a lot of ways, mapping out all the fruit trees that are accessible by the sidewalk. On my map, I have a lot of avocado, loquats, banana trees (though bananas technically aren't trees, they're herbaceous). A lot of citrus, like limes, pomelos, lemons. I have guava and some papaya trees on here. I also sometimes do herbs, so I'll have rosemary. A lot of fig, lavender and stone fruit — peach trees, nectarines. We have passion fruit vines everywhere, and elderberry. Right next to Pijja Palace, there's a huge bush of Thai basil. An interesting part of the process, too, is learning fruit that I didn't know about, like loquats and pink peppercorn. I have 583 of these trees saved. Now, when I go home to Miami, I've started marking fruit there. Miami is where I found my love for fruit. I had so many bananas in my backyard and coconuts when I was growing up. My mom had planted this tree called a cocktail tree, which is essentially a citrus tree that has different types of citrus grafted onto it. There was a lemon, a clementine, lime. It's been fun going to different cities — I have some marked in Croatia when I was there last summer. It's become a practice of just orienting myself on a new land and having this other understanding of a place I love. I really wanted this shoot to be a celebration of fruit and of the land that has given me so much. Oftentimes, our relationship with fruit is that we're eating it, so it's more internal. It's nourishing us. But for this shoot, I loved the idea of having them on the outside, adorning ourselves with them. I was so excited that Keyla Marquez re-created these fruit pieces, like making a loquat necklace. Those loquats technically aren't fully in season yet. When I was driving around, and Keyla was looking too, there were just green loquats everywhere. And then, on my way to the shoot, I saw a loquat tree that had ripe fruit on it. So I pulled over really quick — which is not unlike me, I'm always pulling over for fruit trees — and was able to harvest some. And loquats you can't buy in stores, because they go bad very quickly. So that feels like a very specific L.A., local thing. Especially after the wildfires, there is a lot of mourning for the land, and the fact that these trees are still producing fruit and still nourishing us and still providing even throughout something really traumatic that's happened to our community, to the land and the animals, I think it's just so beautiful. —As told to Elisa Wouk Almino aliana mt is a Jewish Cuban-American photographer and fiber artist based in Los Angeles. aliana's artistic vision is rooted in her exploration of the unconscious mind and deeply influenced by her fascination with dreams.
Yahoo
10-04-2025
- Yahoo
An Illegal BBL Operation in Miami Led to This Tragic Result For a Las Vegas Mother, But Now How You Think
All you BBL hopefuls are probably looking for somewhere to recover in comfort instead of withstanding the painful ride home right after you get off the table. Well, a horrifying incident that claimed the life of a Las Vegas mother should serve as a warning to be careful of the facility you recover in. Ahmonique Miller, 28, and her sister Kiera Barnes, 19, traveled from Las Vegas to Miami for cosmetic procedures at Avana Plastic Surgery Clinic earlier this month on March 7. The two documented their trip on social media, sharing their plans to recover together at Keyla's Recovery House, a home marketed as a post-surgery facility owned by Keyla Oliver. Their mother, Wakeelah, told NBC6 South Florida the pair spent $1,500 each to stay at the facility, which is located on SW 4th Street. However, just hours after the women were finished with their procedures and settled into the post-surgery facility, Ahmonique's recovery process went terribly wrong. In a video, Kiera gave the horrifying details of what happened while also debunking claims that her sister's death was due to the surgical procedure. 'My sister was very healthy. She was never denied surgery. She was given medicine that was not prescribed to her, Percocets,' Kiera said in the video, adding that Keyla never picked up her sister's prescribed medication from the pharmacy. 'I just remember my sister going to sleep and my sister never woke up.' Miami-Dade police say they responded to the recovery home where they found Ahmonique already deceased. Authorities said she showed signs of rigor mortis, suggesting she'd been dead hours prior to their arrival. Police said she was lying face down on a bed with heavy bandaging. It's unclear how much time passed between Ahmonique's death and the police being called. Her sister was moved to another center following the discovery. 'At first, the response was, she's fine, nothing is wrong,' said family attorney Jahra McLawrence via NBC. 'But once they realized that she had passed away, then it wasn't that they treated it like an emergency, but panic started to set in.' Ahmonique's cause and manner of death are still being investigated by the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner. However, police have launched an investigation into the recovery house, which they described as 'operating as an illegal post-plastic surgery recovery home.' The Miami Herald reports that the owner has no medical professional license listed in the Florida Department of Health. The report says this is only the latest of a string of pop up recovery facilities targeting women who travel to South Florida for cosmetic surgeries. The woman's mother told NBC6 she wants her daughter's death to become a warning to trigger policies to prevent this from happening to someone else's daughter. Ahmonique leaves behind a 1-year-old daughter. For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Yahoo
21-03-2025
- Yahoo
A Nevada mother came to Miami for plastic surgery. She died in the recovery house
A Las Vegas woman who came to Miami with her sister for plastic surgery died in a Miami house being used as a recovery center. Ahmonique Miller was 28. She leaves behind a 1-year-old daughter, a mother, a brother and sister Kiera Barnes, who said she was in the recovery house with Miller at the time of the death. Miami police confirmed homicide detectives are investigating how Miller died at 10:26 p.m. March 7 at 3637 SW Fourth St. In a video, Barnes said Keyla Oliver, who runs Keyla's Recovery House at that address, is responsible for what happened. Oliver answered the door at 3637 SW Fourth St., then referred all Miami Herald questions to attorney Bob Pardo. Asked about the customers at Keyla's Recovery House, license and medical professionals employed, Pardo said, 'It would be improper for us to comment at this time; our condolences to the family of the deceased.' READ MORE: A Miami doctor got fined $9,450. He ghosted a patient having post-liposuction problems Barnes said in a video posted on the Instagram account @couturebodyculture and reposted by @surgery411 that she and Miller came to Miami for plastic surgery procedures at Avana Plastic Surgery, 8700 W. Flagler St. Miller's surgeon was Dr. Algird Mameniskis. Like other plastic surgery centers, Avana is licensed as an office surgery center, not a hospital. By Florida administrative code, patients have to be discharged within 24 hours of showing up for surgery. Most patients are in and out the same day, then spend their post-surgery days at recovery houses, which are usually run out of rented houses. MORE: The unlicensed plastic surgery recovery house next door, common in Miami suburbs There's no unique license for recovery centers, although their services — including personal care such as bathing and dressing, and helping give prescribed medication — aligns with being an assisted living facility. 'Operating an assisted living facility without a license' is a common charge when arrests are made at recovery houses in Miami-Dade. Among recovery houses, there's great variance in luxuriousness and, more importantly, level of actual care — number of guests accepted at any given time, ratio of licensed medical professionals to recovering patients and number of licensed medical professionals present. In the Instagram video, Barnes said she and Miller chose Keyla's Recovery House. A search of Florida Department of Health records shows no medical professional license for Keyla Oliver. There's also no state corporate or assisted living facility registration for Keyla's Recovery House, although state corporate records show Keyla Oliver runs Keyla's Services at 3637 SW Fourth St. and had previously done so at 3227 SW 26th St., which Keyla's Recovery House's Facebook page lists as its previous address. The other unit at the house, 3639 SW Fourth St., is on state corporate records as the address of Keyla Services' manager, Oliver. Barnes' attorney, Hollywood's Frantz 'Jahra' McLawrence, said there were five people at the recovery center the night of March 7: Miller, Barnes, Oliver, Oliver's son and a staffer. Barnes said after Mameniskis learned of Miller's death, he sent Clelia Alcantara to bring Barnes to Alcantara's Couture Body Culture recovery center. 'I did not stay (at Keyla's Recovery House) the night my sister died,' Barnes said. 'I didn't feel safe.'
