I'm putting this here because there isn't any mention of the "legal status" of the people. However, the so-called financial straights mentioned shocked me considering he was driving a Cadillac Escalade!

4-year-old boy succumbs to injuries; father, who authorities said crashed SUV in suicide attempt, held on murder charge

By: JOHN HUNNEMAN -- Staff Writer

WILDOMAR ---- The young boy who was ejected from his father's SUV when the man crashed into another vehicle on Clinton Keith Road on Thursday in an apparent suicide attempt, has died from his injuries, officials said.

The boy, identified by a family friend as 4-year-old Javier Terrones Jr., died at Loma Linda Medical Center on Thursday after being airlifted to that hospital from Inland Valley Medical Center in Wildomar.

The father, Javier Terrones, 30, of Lake Elsinore, was booked Thursday night at Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside on suspicion of murder, attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm and two counts of child endangerment.

He is being held in lieu of $1 million dollars bail, court records state, and is scheduled to be arraigned at 8 a.m. Monday at Southwest Justice Center.

Deputies from the Lake Elsinore sheriff's station went to a home in the 17000 block of Raley Avenue Thursday morning after receiving a call from a distraught woman who said her husband had threatened to kill the boy and their 10-year-old daughter as well as himself, because of marital problems, Detective Sgt. Evan Petersen said.

Terrones was driving the couple's burgundy Cadillac Escalade when he made the call to his wife, Petersen said.

Several minutes after that call the California Highway Patrol notified deputies the Escalade had been involved in a major traffic collision on Clinton Keith Road.

The Escalade, which had been reported by witnesses as going in excess of 100 mph south on Interstate 15, left the freeway near the Clinton Keith Road offramp and traveled up the side embankment. When it reached the bridge, the large SUV flew into the air and landed on top of a Ford Explorer Sports Trac that was westbound on the bridge.

The driver of the Ford was treated at Rancho Springs Medical Center in Murrieta for minor injuries and released.

Terrones and his two children were taken by ambulance to nearby Inland Valley Medical Center. The 10-year-old girl, whose name has not been released, was treated there and released.

Javier Terrones Sr. was transferred to Riverside County Regional Medical Center in Moreno Valley and treated for minor injures before he was arrested.

On Sunday, worshippers at the Aliento de Dios Church in Wildomar, which the family attends, will pray for the family and will be asked to provide assistance, the church's pastor said.

"They weren't set too well financially," the pastor, Peter Montalvo, said Friday. "They are going to need some help."

Donations will be accepted at the church, 25319 Bundy Canyon Road, or by mail at Breath of God Christian Outreach, 33039 Robert St., Wildomar, CA 92595.

Checks should note the donation is for "Javier Jr." on the memo line, Montalvo said.

The investigation is continuing and authorities ask that anyone with information contact Investigator Eddie Vargas at the Sheriff's Central Homicide Unit at (951) 955-2777 or Investigator Tina Woodard at the Lake Elsinore Sheriff's Station at (951) 245-3300.

Contact staff writer John Hunneman at (951) 676-4315, Ext. 2603 or hunneman@californian.com.
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