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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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