Anthony Salas (20 years old) was killed trying to recover his sister’s stolen car in Del Valle earlier this month. He was run over and shot in the neck by the suspects who were juveniles, 12 and 13, charged with capital murder. These juveniles are suspected to be involved in dozens of break in across the Austin area.
I saw these kids breaking into cars when I was visiting my mother’s house in East Austin. I was tempted to say something to scare them off because they looked like scrawny little boys, but my Mom kept insisting we just go inside and call the cops. Her paranoia about “everyone having a gun” turned out to be right. I’m still in shock it was these punk kids and I can’t imagine how much the family is grieving.
Donations have been kind of scarce and the family is having a hard time finding a place to have a fundraiser, so please donate to the GoFundMe if you can:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-4-anthonymay-he-always-be-remembered
News video with Anthony’s mother:
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/mother-victim-killed-while-trying-recover-stolen-car-del-valle-speaks-out