Victim's Mother Says Man Was Predicting His Death

Driver responsible hasn't been charged

COMBES - The mother of a hit-and-run victim says her son may have been preparing for the worse.

"He always kept saying, 'I'm going to die in my 20s,'" recalls Marie Briseno, the mother of 20-year-old Christopher Eric Chavez. "I feel like he was predicting his death."

Deputies say a driver hit Chavez near Highway 77 and Orphanage Road, just north of Combes. They've confirmed the woman responsible didn't stop to render aid. About an hour later, she walked into the La Feria Police Department to fill out a report.

She told police she hit something but wasn't sure what it was. The driver hasn't been charged, even though she didn't stop to render aid.

"She hit him and left," says Briseno.

The grieving mother says her son wasn't a saint. Chavez had been shot while living near Houston last May.

"He survived it. God gave us another year, so May to May... God gave us another year with him," Briseno tell us.

The victim's family says Chavez had just started to turn his life around. He was supposed to get his diploma in July. He had just started a new job at TSTC in Harlingen was scheduled to start school in the fall.