A Hall County family has suffered death and injury due to a crash involving a suspected DUI driver. But it also has been getting widespread financial and emotional support.
Elizabeth Alvarez-Perez, a 44-year-old single mother, remains unconscious after the Dec. 6 crash that killed her son, Jesus Perez, 19, the Gainesville Times reported. He was buried in Dahlonega on Tuesday.
Another family member, Matthew Perez, 14, a junior varsity football player at Gainesville High School, has left the hospital, the paper reported. His sister Stephanie, a Gainesville High band member, remains in the hospital with two broken legs, a broken jaw and other injuries.
The staff at Georgia Skin Center, where the mother worked, started a GoFundMe page after learning of the crash, according to the report. The page had raised more than $25,700 as of midday Wednesday.
“She always had a smile, and her cup was half full all the time,” Amanda Sheidy Haney said of Alvarez-Perez, her co-worker. “She’s the kind of person who would give the shirt off her back to help someone.”
Georgia State Patrol Cpl. Jonathan Munger said Jonathan Flanagan, 22, of Dahlonega, was driving too fast for the wet conditions at the time of the crash.
Also, Munger could not say more about Flanagan’s alleged DUI impairment until a chemical test was performed, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported.
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