HESPERIA — A tragic accident that claimed a young Hesperia mother and one of her three sons, and left another still missing, has left family members "devastated" and "heartbroken," they told the Daily Press on Friday. 
 
 “It's one of those things where you feel like you're telling somebody else's story,” said Natalia Garcia, 19, of Pomona. “You're telling friends and family who are calling what happened and then you sit back and think about how your 1-year-old nephew is freezing.” 
 
 As San Bernardino County Sheriff's’ dive team members continued their search for 2-year-old Noah Abbott until about 2 p.m. Friday, loved ones paid their respects. Noah's mother, Christina Eileen Estrada, 31, of Hesperia, and his brother Jeremiah Robert Abbott, 3, were killed when their red Volkswagen convertible crashed through a fence on Main Street and into the California Aqueduct on Thursday night. 
 
 Candles of all sizes, stuffed animals and bouquet of flowers were placed along the fence where the crash occurred. While some formed a prayer circle as the dive team searched for Noah’s body, others held each other in a long embrace as they grieved. 
 
 Garcia, who is a cousin of the family, told the Daily Press authorities told the family the Volkswagen was traveling west on Main Street but it's still unknown what caused it to crash into the aqueduct. The investigation continues. 
 
 She also described Estrada as a mother who "loved her kids with all her heart" and the three children as "loving boys who loved their momma and loved their daddy." 
 
 “When they told us they couldn’t resume the search and we had to wait until morning it was hard,” Garcia said. “There was just nothing we could do and we had to let the professionals do their job.” 
 
 Noah’s great-grandmother of Apple Valley, who declined to give her name, said she received a call from Noah’s father, Kevin Abbott, around 10 p.m. Friday night and said she “was heartbroken to hear the news.” 
 
 “My husband and I will stick around here as long as we can and will just be thankful once they recover Noah's body,” she said. “It's really heartbreaking to know that he hasn't been recovered.” 
 
 San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner officials said Estrada was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:47 p.m. after emergency personnel pulled her from the icy water. 
 
 Emergency personnel also pulled Jeremiah from the water and transported him to Desert Valley Hospital. He was pronounced dead in the emergency department at 10:32 p.m., authorities said. 
 
 Noah’s other brother, Elijah Estrada, 10, was taken to Loma Linda University Medical Center, where he is continuing to recover. Witnesses at the scene said they helped rescue the boy after he was ejected from the Volkswagen. 
 
 Elijah was reported to be "doing well," according to his uncle, Steven Abbott. 
 
 "We're just glad he's doing good and appears to be in good health," Abbott told the Daily Press. 
 
 Abbott said the family was "devastated" and "heartbroken," but planned to stay at the aqueduct until Noah was found. 
 
 "Kevin's having a hard time right now," Garcia said. "He's been put in a position where he's now a single father, so we're looking for any support we can get." 
 
 Garcia said the family has created two GoFundMe accounts, one by herself and one by Abbott, to help the father, Kevin Abbott, who is also an Iraq War veteran. 
 
 "We're not asking for money, we're asking for support, whatever that may be,” Steven Abbott said. “Even if it's a prayer, we'll take that all day." 
 
 City Editor Kevin Trudgeon contributed to this story. 
 
 Jose Quintero may be reached at 760-955-5332 or JQuintero@DesertDispatch.com. Follow him on Twitter at @DP_JoseQ. 
 
 Monica Solano can be reached at MSolano@VVDailyPress.com or at 760-951-6231. Follow her on Twitter@DP_MonicaInes ||||| [[ DISCLAIMER: there are three gofundme accounts available (Steven Abbott, Natalia Garcia, & Abundant Living Church) and donations to either of them will go towards memorial services ]] Hello everybody. My name is Natalia and I am a cousin of the Abbott family. On March 2, 2017 Christina (mom) and Elijah (10, second from the right), Jeremiah (3, top middle), and Noah (2, most left) were in a tragic car accident in Hesperia. Elijah, the oldest and our miracle, is injured but in a stable condition. Noah, the youngest, has yet to be found. Christina was unfortunately pronounced dead on the scene, and Jeremiah, after two hours of unsuccessful resuscitation, has also unfortunately passed away. With this much loss, our family is not only suffering emotionally but financially. Keven, the husband and father, is an Iraqi veteran who has fallen on hard times and has the burden of planning multiple funerals for the ones he loved most. He has to bury his wife and children, yet still run a household and take care of his other kids. If God puts it in your heart to donate, please know that all is appreciated and words do not explain how much every penny matters. Other ways to help the family include prayers (a lot of them) and even sharing this link so that it may reach far and wide. Thank you so much and may God bless you all!** any questions regarding the fund may be forwarded to nataliagarcia1724@gmail.com 
 
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 TEMPLE, Texas (KWKT) — New details have been released about a boating accident that left one child dead and one man in serious condition. 
 
 After an arrest affidavit released Monday, witnesses say they told 47-year-old Jason Bernal, who was driving his houseboat, to stop reversing his boat because there were children in the water. 
 
 The accident happened Friday in Temple Lake Park when Patrick Oliver was swimming with his 4-year-old daughter, Kaitlyn. 
 
 Bernal told police he didn’t see anyone in the water, however multiple witnesses say they screamed warning him to stop driving. 
 
 Kaitlyn got stuck inside the propellers and when Patrick tried to save her, his legs got caught. 
 
 “He did have both of his legs amputated and my little Katilyn lost her life,” said Patrick’s aunt, Christine Alfonso, who drove from San Antonio to be with Patrick while he undergoes his third surgery, “There’s many more to come, the recovery process is a long way to go, but I think more than losing his legs, it’s losing Kaitlyn.” 
 
 Temple police have not confirmed whether alcohol or drugs were a factor in the incident. 
 
 “I don’t care if it’s a skateboard, a car, a boat, if you’ve been drinking, do not get behind the wheel,” said Alfonso. 
 
 Family members tell Fox 44 News, Kaitlyn was going to start kindergarten in the fall and would’ve turned five in August. 
 
 “Temple Lake park was Katilyn’s favorite place to go, they were just having fun and swimming,” a family member said. 
 
 Bernal is now facing negligent homicide charges, but is not listed as a current inmate in the Bell County Jail as of Monday night. 
 
 Alfonso says Patrick was in between jobs and does not have health insurance. 
 
 The family has set up a GoFundMe Account here. 
 
 A public viewing for Kaitlyn will be set for later this week at Crotty Funeral Home in Belton. 
 
 The funeral home has offered to cover funeral expenses. ||||| (CNN) An autopsy is scheduled Tuesday for a body found near the Northern California site where an SUV plunged off a cliff last month, killing at least five members of a family in what investigators suspect may have been an intentional crash . 
 
 But it could take several weeks to determine whether it's the body of one of three children still missing after the crash because lengthy DNA analysis may be needed for identification, the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office says. 
 
 Vacationers found the body of an African-American female floating in the Pacific Ocean surf Saturday, nearly two weeks after the SUV carrying the Hart family plunged off a cliff and onto a rocky shoreline in a remote stretch in Mendocino County, about 180 miles north of San Francisco. 
 
 The bodies of Jennifer and Sarah Hart, both 38, were found March 26 inside their crashed SUV. The bodies of three of their adopted children -- Markis, 19; Jeremiah, 14; and Abigail, 14 -- were found nearby. 
 
 The Harts' three other adopted children -- Hannah, 16; Devonte, 15; and Sierra, 12 -- are missing, but investigators have said they believe the whole family was in the SUV at the time of the crash. 
 
 Police have said no one in the SUV was wearing a seat belt and that seawater might have swept away the missing children. Searchers found nothing further Monday, the sheriff's office said. 
 
 The crash came as child protection personnel in Washington state were trying to visit the family after a neighbor said he reported a child's complaint of mistreatment. 
 
 Investigated as a crime 
 
 The bodies of Jennifer and Sarah Hart and three of their six kids were found in and around their SUV. 
 
 Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman has described the crash as "a crime." The vehicle appears to have left a highway for a dirt turnout, then accelerated on that turnout for about 70 feet until it went off the cliff, authorities said, citing data from the vehicle's software and air bag module. 
 
 No skid marks were seen in the area, officials said. 
 
 "I'm to the point where I no longer am calling this an accident," Allman told HLN last week. 
 
 There were no witnesses to help guide police. A passer-by discovered the SUV, seeing the mangled wreckage at the foot of the cliff. 
 
 A family's troubled history 
 
 The family's history, including allegations of child abuse and an investigation by Child Protective Services in Washington state, provides clues as to why Allman said he is investigating the case as a crime. 
 
 The Harts moved to a home in Woodland, Washington, in mid-2017, recalled neighbor Bruce DeKalb , who said he had two sets of disturbing encounters with the children after the move. 
 
 "One of the girls came to the door at 1:30 in the morning and said that she needed help and the parents were not treating her properly, and (she) wanted us to protect her," DeKalb said, describing the first encounter. 
 
 "We ended up getting her back to her parents, ... and then I went over there the next morning and just checked on things, and everything seemed normal, and we let it go from there." 
 
 Then in March, DeKalb said, Devonte began "coming over asking for food and saying that they were taking meals away from him due to punishment." 
 
 "It started out as one time a day and escalated up to three times a day until a week went by, and we decided that we needed to get professional help," DeKalb said. 
 
 State officials alerted 
 
 DeKalb said he called the state's Child Protective Services office on March 23. Officials arrived just after Jennifer Hart came home from work, but she didn't answer the door, he said. 
 
 Sarah Hart came home soon after that, DeKalb said. By the next morning, the family and its vehicle were gone. 
 
 Officials tried to visit the family twice more, on March 26 and 27, but couldn't make contact, the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services said. 
 
 Sarah Hart earlier had faced allegations of mistreatment in Minnesota, where she and Jennifer lived when the children were adopted about a decade ago from Texas. 
 
 In 2010, Sarah Hart pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic assault involving one of the children, according to Douglas County, Minnesota, court records. 
 
 She told police she had spanked the child over the edge of the bathtub because of the child's behavior. She was sentenced to community service and one year of probation. 
 
 In 2014, Devonte garnered national attention when he embraced a white police officer at a time when racially charged protests were being held across the country following a grand jury's decision not to indict the white Missouri police officer who killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black man. 
 
 Devonte helped quell tensions with his sign offering "Free Hugs," and his photo was shared around the world.
– A California family's grief deepened Saturday after divers called off the search for 2-year-old Noah Abbott, who has been missing since Thursday when the car his mother was driving crashed into an aqueduct, the Mercury News reports. The bodies of Christina Estrada, 31, and another son, Jeremiah, 3, were previously recovered, but Noah remains missing and presumed dead. The family's attention now turns to the lone survivor, Elijah Estrada, 10, who was released from a hospital over the weekend. He had been ejected from the red Volkswagen convertible, and witnesses say they helped pull him from the water, where he had been holding on to flotation buoys. Elijah's uncle, Steven Abbott, tells the Victorville Daily Press that the boy is doing well and appears to be in good health. Relatives kept a vigil at the aqueduct in Hesperia amid a makeshift memorial of candles, flowers, and stuffed animals as police searched for Noah in the water and by air. Authorities ended the search because of unsafe conditions from a strong current and poor visibility. Two GoFundMe accounts (here and here) have been set up to help Kevin Abbott, the husband and father, pay funeral expenses. Abbott, an Iraq War veteran who was not in the car, is "having a hard time right now," says a cousin. "He's been put in a position where he's now a single father, so we're looking for any support we can get." The car crashed through a fence and into water about 6:40pm Thursday, and the cause is under investigation. It was fully submerged when found.