TULSA, Okla. — Court records show the mother of 5-year-old boy killed in a hit-and-run crash has been charged in connection to his death.
The Tulsa County District Attorney filed charges on Friday against Eveyln Ortiz-Luevano, 23, for negligent homicide and child neglect/motor vehicle. A warrant carrying a $50,000 bond has been issued for her arrest, according to online records.
On Tuesday night at 31st and Riverside, Cadence Reyes-Ortiz, 5, was killed while riding a scooter with his mother, Ortiz-Luevano, when they were hit by a car. Police say the alleged driver of the car, Renier S. Davison, fled the scene. The boy died later at the hospital.
At the scene, police told us the child and his mother were riding a rented scooter southbound in the outside, northbound lanes of Riverside Drive when they were hit.
Davison turned himself in the next morning after police named him a person of interest. Investigators tracked a debris trail to an apartment complex and reviewed video footage from Gathering Place to make the connection, they say.
According to a probable cause affidavit, several witnesses saw Ortiz-Luevano on the scooter with her son zigzagging across traffic and driving it at full speed.
One witness said Ortiz-Luevano and her son were on one scooter and a friend was on another, the affidavit says. The witness told police they honked when seeing the scooters headed toward oncoming traffic near the tunnels on Riverside Drive. The two scooters also split around an SUV on both sides, continuing to head south in the northbound lanes, according to witnesses cited in the document.
The affidavit says witnesses told investigators Ortiz-Luevano later swerved to miss a vehicle, and when she did, her son was thrown from the scooter they were riding together. That vehicle swerved also, according to the witness, and hit the little boy, the document says.
“My investigation revealed that the Defendant was illegally operating the motorized scooter contrary to traffic laws and operating the scooter in a reckless and negligent manner which led to the death of her 5-year-old son…” the investigating officer wrote in the affidavit.
Late Friday afternoon, Davison was charged with leaving scene of fatality collision, causing accident without valid driver’s license and driving under suspension. He posted $10,000 bond and was released from jail on Wednesday.
This is a developing story.
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