A Garland family is mourning after their loved one, a recent high school graduate, was killed this week by a hit-and-run driver.
"He’d take me to skate parks, hold my hand over some of the big stuff I was scared to do and have me there for hours going again and again until I got comfortable and celebrate whenever I was able to go down by myself, some of the bigger ramps," she said."My heart is in a really hard place just trying to understand why such an amazing person and my brother, in particular, was taken away from us," Cortez said.
Noah’s grandmother, Martha Hernandez, and her husband raised Noah and his sister. She recalls an officer knocking on her door later that day.The Delta County Sheriff’s Office says vehicle parts found at the scene reveal it to have been a Nissan Altima between the years 2001 and 2005. It released a stock image in hopes of someone coming forward with information.