Dinkins is accused of being drunk when he hit a little red wagon that held one-year-old Kaylee Alvarez and her two-year-old brother Oscar. The children were being pulled by their parents, Alex and Yesenia Alvarez, across a cross walk at Redondo Avenue and 10th Street at about 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 11 when the crash occurred.
The parents and other passersby screamed for Dinkins to stop as he sped away with the wagon and the children jammed in the wheel well of a friend's SUV.
Witnesses said he did stop
for a moment a short distance away from the point of impact and that is
when Oscar fell out of the wagon and was snatched to safety by people
standing nearby.
The two-year-old underwent surgery for second-degree burns caused by the dragging but is expected to make a full recovery.
Kaylee, however, was still buckled into the wagon and remained wedged inside of the wheel well of the SUV as Dinkins took off again and wound his way to a residence on Wilton Street just off Redondo, witnesses said
Long Beach police estimate the baby was dragged more than a mile.
Dinkins said nothing during his court appearance Thursday, but he nodded to supporters in the back of the courtroom before he was transferred back to a holding cell. He is being held in lieu of $1.3 million bail.
Also in attendance were Alex and Yesenia Alvarez, the parents of Kaylee and Oscar.
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