Cinthya Garcia-Cisneros, charged in fatal hit-and-run: 'I kept telling myself that I didn't see anything.'

Article author: 
Emily E. Smith
Article publisher: 
OregonLive.com
Article date: 
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Article category: 
Crime
Medium
Article Body: 

...When her younger brother later told her she might have struck two children, she “panicked,” she testified Tuesday.

Garcia-Cisneros, 19, is on trial in Circuit Court, facing two counts of felony hit and run in a deadly Forest Grove crash. Closing arguments are planned for Wednesday morning....

Police tied Garcia-Cisneros to the crash through a neighbor’s tip...

The next day, Oct. 21, she woke up thinking she’d had a nightmare, she said....

She ran errands with her boyfriend, 18-year-old Mario Echeverria. She was with him when he ran the SUV through a car wash, she said, without mentioning it to her. He pleaded guilty to hindering prosecution last month and is serving 13 months in prison....