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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The family of a 7-year-old girl killed in a hit- and-run crash wants to know why the suspect is still not arrested three
months after he was identified.

"I want to ask him, 'How do you sleep at night knowing that you took a
little girl from her family?'" Tiara McDaniel said with tears streaming
down her cheeks.

Her only daughter and the baby of the family, Journee McDaniel, was riding
with two cousins as they left her brother's birthday party at Bay Area
Raceway.

"She was only 7 years old. She still had a lot of life, and she was full
of life," her father Jermaine McDaniel said.

ORIGINAL STORY: South Beltway-area hit-and-run crash leads to girl's death
and injuries to driver and boy, HPD says

It was Dec. 11, 2021.

Houston police said a black pick-up truck sped through a stop sign at
Cullen Boulevard and Schurmier Road. The pickup truck hit the car Journee
was riding in. She died at the hospital.

"This month it will be 8 months. I haven't been the same," Tiara said.

Police say the suspect driver, Pedro Vargas Garcia, ran away from the
scene. An hour later, they say he called police to report his truck
stolen.

According to court records, during the interview for his stolen truck, he submitted a DNA swab, and in May, that DNA came back as a match to DNA
found on his steering wheel airbag that deployed in the crash.

But it took another two months for charges and an arrest warrant to be
filed in July, and just days after that Garcia hired an attorney.

"It's been eight months and he gets to run around free. He lied and said somebody stole his vehicle. Y'all find out he's lying and it's like,
'OK,'" Tiara said.

Court records from July 7 even state: "Defendant partying and has a wreck, leaves the scene of the accident where a 7-year-old child dies, and then
lies about his vehicle being stolen."

ABC13 asked Houston police why no arrest has been made.

They tell us it's an active investigation and a media spokesperson is
working to get us answers.

Journee's parents say the longer it takes to find justice in her case, the
more prolonged their grief, anger, and pain grows.

https://abc13.com/journee-mcdaniel-girl-killed-hit-and-run-pedro-vargas- garcia-cullen-boulevard/12103138/

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