Family of Crash Victim Seek Funds for Burial in Guatemala

The family of a young woman killed by a speeding police car is asking the public’s help in raising $15,000 to send her body back to her native Guatemala for burial.   Sofia Gomez Aguilon, 20, of Wallace Avenue, in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx, was crossing Pelham Parkway South at Wallace Avenue when an NYPD Highway One patrol unit struck her at 3:26 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 5.   Police reported that, at the time of the accident, the police unit was responding, with lights and sirens, to a call for assistance, transmitted by a separate Highway


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