LEMON GROVE, Calif. (KGTV) — Activists and family members of Irma Perez say she might still be alive if the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department had acted sooner. They are now demanding answers after Perez was found in a ditch in Lemon Grove in late July.
Richard Quinones, a neighbor who discovered Perez in the ditch near Main Street and Buena Vista Avenue, says he first called the Sheriff’s Department on July 29. He told dispatchers there was a woman lying in water. Quinones says a deputy drove by but left without intervening.
“They just pulled up, backed up a little bit, and then took off. I dialed again,” Quinones says…