FORT LAUDERDALE — A family is in mourning after a mother was allegedly killed by the father of one of her children when he ran her down in front of a crowd of people in Pompano Beach on Saturday night.
Cellphone video captured the frantic moments after Brenda Hernandez Amaya, 29, was hit by a pickup truck allegedly driven by 32-year-old Edwin Amaya around 9:30 p.m. He currently faces a premeditated murder charge.
CBS News Miami spoke with Hernandez Amaya’s 10-year-old daughter with her father’s permission. CBS News Miami chose not to reveal her identity because of the events the young girl witnessed.
“I still can’t believe that’s true,” she said. “I can’t believe it.”
“He came… he was discussing my mom, then he went to the truck,” the daughter continued.
Omar Munguia, Hernandez Amaya’s ex-husband and the father of her two older children, told CBS News Miami that he was part of a group of people going out to dinner that night when Amaya allegedly showed up drunk and demanded to take the former couple’s two-year-old toddler with him.