Good Samaritan recalls crucial moments helping child involved in deadly accident

KATY – Before the ambulance arrived Sunday, passing motorists stopped to help.

Alejandro Aguirre and his wife Carmen Meza were dead, but their 2-year-old son, Osiel, and his 4-month-old sister -- still strapped into child safety seats -- were both injured.

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Their aunt said that a woman who stopped that night helped care for Osiel, who was the most seriously injured.

"We're really looking for her. We're looking for her. We would like to thank her for everything," Yessica Carrizales said.

On Tuesday, we found that woman. Kim Grimes and her husband were on their way home from a Father's Day event when they pulled up to the accident.

"There were people trying to open the truck doors and I just got out and went up there to see if I could help somebody," Grimes said.

Grimes said other good Samaritans were already busy pulling the children from the smoking truck.

"They got the little boy out, and brought him out and a man just handed him to me," Grimes said. "He had blood all over his face, it was running down his face, he was unconscious."

She said blood was pouring from a bad gash on Osiel's head. A man who had also stopped handed her a towel.

"I just kept pressure on it until the EMTs came. I was helping them with the (cervical) collar and once they got the collar on him and got him on a backboard, then they let me move away," Grimes said.

She says even after the little boy was in the medic's care, she continued to worry about him because she never saw him regain consciousness.