Keila Ruby Flores, Texan woman struck by a rock thrown into the overpass



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During a horrific incident on Saturday in Texas, a mother was fatally injured in front of her boyfriend and their three children by a stone thrown on their vehicle on Interstate 35 near Temple. The large stone "struck and penetrated the windshield of the vehicle, making contact with the front passenger and causing serious injury," police said in a press release. Keila Ruby Flores, 33, was hospitalized after the incident around 8:40 pm Saturday and died Sunday morning, according to KWTX. The boyfriend Christopher Rodriguez was driving and the children, the youngest, aged 6, were at the back.

Temple police said it treated the death as a homicide and asked for information about the suspect who threw the stone off a railway bridge, the BBC reported. Rodriguez says that at first he did not know what had happened. "It happened so quickly, I did not even know what … went through the windshield before I stopped and when I took out Keila from the car, it was not that bad. Then I saw the rock stop on his lap, "he told KXXV. He says he performed CPR with the help of a good Samaritan who had stopped when he had reported his vehicle. (In November, a Tennessee man on his way to work was killed by concrete thrown from a bridge.)

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