It’s a phone call no family member ever wants to receive, to hear that a loved has passed away.
“I wanted to pass out to be honest with you,” said Alma Delia Garcia. “Fainted...Couldn't accept it...I still can't accept it."
Garcia spoke to Action 4 News about how difficult it is to cope with the death of her younger brother Joey Mendoza.
Early Sunday morning, an unknown driver hit the 37-year-old man as he was walking home on Sam Houston Boulevard in San Benito.
Although the loss is tough to handle, the family said they're struggling to understand why the person responsible left him there to die.
“Were very forgiving people I can tell you that, but it hurts a lot that if he or she would of stopped, that moment he could of been alive right now...but they just left him out there..he’s a human being," explained Garcia.
But as hard as they're taking it nothing compares to their mothers pain.
Not only is she in rehabilitation recovering from surgery but now she has to deal with the pain of losing her youngest son.
For them the only consolation is Joey himself.
"He would say they were big babies to stop crying," said Maria Teresa Martinez another one of Mendoza’s sisters.
The known jokester the family told us wouldn't want them to be sad.
“He's going to miss his friends his family but he's in better...He's in a better place,” said Garcia.
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