Teenage Girl Killed Trying To Stop Thief

Posted on July 7, 2014 | Written By: iadminlaw

A teenage girl died Thursday, July 3, while trying to stop a man who stole her iPhone.

The 15-year-old girl Ruby Rubio was with her 7-year-old sister when a man, according to the Santa Ana Police Department, confronted her. They were on Warner Avenue.

The man grabbed her phone and jumped into the passenger seat of a Pontiac nearby. Rubio chased after the silver or gray car and jumped onto the trunk. She fell off and was hurt critically.

“As they drove off, they swerved, she was hanging on to the trunk,” Santa Ana Police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said in an interview with NBC Los Angeles. “She fell off, struck her head and that’s how this started.”

Rubio died two days later in the hospital.

“She would open her eyes and look at me for 5 seconds,” said Rubio’s mother, Marisol Hernandez in an interview with NBC Los Angeles.

“They have no heart,” friend Maria Saucedo said in an interview with NBC Los Angeles. “That was dumb, what they did to her.”

The phone was found near the scene and police expect that it had been tossed from the car.

The suspect is described as a Hispanic man in his late 20s to early 30s, about 5 feet, 10 inches tall. He was last seen wearing a black baseball hat, white tank top and light colored jeans.

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Source: NBC Los Angeles