SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio police spent roughly less than 30 minutes searching for a woman who crashed into a creek on the South Side a day before she was found dead, SAPD told KSAT.
Jolie Pesina, 21, was found dead in her vehicle on Tuesday evening in Leon Creek, underneath Southwest Loop 410 and not far from State Highway 16.
According to SAPD, Pesina was driving on Loop 410 at around 6 a.m. on Monday when she lost control of her car.
Pesina’s older sister, Gloria Ramos, told KSAT that the San Antonio Fire Department told her Pesina’s phone sent an alert to authorities that she was in a car crash. When authorities arrived on scene, Ramos said they told her they didn’t find anything.
Deputy Chief Michelle Ramos told KSAT on Thursday that Pesina’s phone pinged a mile from the actual scene, and that’s why they couldn’t locate her.
SAPD responded just before 6 a.m. and cleared the scene around 6:15 a.m.
Her family searched the area based on her last location and found Pesina’s car flipped into the ditch.
“Was she in pain?” Monique Esparza questioned. “Did it happen instantly? She was down there for so long that we didn’t even see.”
Pesina leaves behind her 2-year-old girl.
“It’s terrible,” Ramos said. “It just feels like they just didn’t do enough.”
Anyone who was driving just before 6 a.m. Monday on eastbound Loop 410 near State Highway 16 is urged to contact SAPD with information.
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