Wednesday 6 July 2022 09:51 PM Best friends, 11 and 12, are killed after ATV hit-and-run crash in Apple ... trends now
An 11-year-old girl who was on life support for four days after an ATV struck her and killed her best friend in Apple Valley, California, died on Wednesday morning.
Christina 'Tina' Bird, who was celebrating the Fourth of July weekend with her best friend Jacob Martinez, 12, was pronounced dead at 8:50am at the Loma Linda University Medical Center, her uncle Ernie Nunez confirmed on Facebook.
Police said the duo was riding on the same ATV at a camp ground on July 2 when another ATV crashed into them, mangling them and refusing to stop and help as the driver fled the scene, KTLA reported.
On the GoFundMe page Nunez began for Christina's mother, Felica Nunez, he wrote: 'The doctors did their final tests today to see if there is any life in Tina. The results were negative.'
'Tina has grown her pair of wings to join her Grandma and Grandpa in Heaven where she is pain free.'
Best friends Christina Bird, 11, (left) and Jacob Martinez, 12, (right) were killed following an ATV hit-and-run over the Fourth of July weekend in Apple Valley, California
Pictured: Jacob on an ATV that he drove with Christina before the deadly crash on July 2
Family and first responders found the children's ATV destroyed, with their bodies mangled. Jacob died at the scene, and Christina was put on life support
Ernie Nunez, Christina's uncles, shared the heartbreaking new of his niece's death on Facebook on Wednesday. Nunez (right) is
