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Tonia
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man killed on 7/21

Some of you may have read about a tragedy that occured on Saturday, with the man that was dragged under his girlfriends car and killed. I went to HS with him, and although we weren't very close I have found this entire thing very sad and upsetting. If you can and would like, there will be a fundraiser held at Nawton's in Westbury on friday night from 9pm-1am. There's a $50 charge per person and the money collected will be given to his family to help cover there finances.

My prayers go out to his family and friends

Below is the article from today's Newsday.



Drunk but intent on driving, Jesenia Vega fought off her boyfriend as she left a Centereach block party and got into her car, Suffolk police said.

"You're going to get arrested," Louis Wiederer, 26, of Westbury, warned his girlfriend, a witness heard them arguing late Saturday. "You can't drive like that!"

"Leave me alone!" she said.

With that, Vega, 27, of Carle Place, put her key in the ignition and drove off - as Wiederer hung onto an open window. She continued north, dragging him on the pavement, then underneath her car, before coming to a stop three blocks later, police and witnesses said.

Jay Steiner, 60, a retired nurse, who lives near the scene, rushed to the man's aid.

"Oh, my God," Steiner recalled Vega telling him. "Don't tell me I just killed my fiance."

Wiederer was pronounced dead at the scene. Vega was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated. She was arraigned yesterday at First District Court in Central Islip, where she was remanded to the county jail without bail.

As friends and relatives comforted Wiederer's family yesterday afternoon, his mother struggled for words to describe the sudden death of her eldest son.

"It's just a loss right now that's indescribable," Barbara Dempsey said through tears.

Dempsey recalled telling her son goodbye Saturday afternoon as he left for what was supposed to be a jovial evening at a friend's summer barbecue.

"Have a good time," Dempsey told him. "I love you."

"I love you, too," he replied.

Wiederer and his girlfriend arrived at the annual Flower Lane block party, where families set up food in their yards and invite over friends and neighbors. At about 9 p.m., Vega left and headed toward her car at the corner of Garden Lane and Tree Road, and the arguing began, neighbors said.
"It looked like he was hitting her, but he was trying to stop her," neighbor Nick Montanino, 49, recalled yesterday.

"She was totally irrational," Montanino said of Vega.

Vega slipped in the vehicle and drove off, as Wiederer grabbed onto the open driver's side window. She fishtailed down the block, with her boyfriend's feet dragging underneath the car until his shoes came off, Steiner said. Somewhere along the way, Wiederer became lodged underneath the vehicle, leaving a trail of skid marks and blood.

Steiner watched in horror as the car sped past two stop signs, he said, and then came to an abrupt stop at the intersection of Tree Road and Vine Court.

"The whole back of the car was enveloped in white smoke," Steiner said. He rushed to the car and crawled beneath it, where he found Wiederer's badly injured body, he said.

There were no signs of life.

Steiner asked Vega if she was hurt. She said no and asked about her fiance, he said.

He asked Vega where her fiance was, Steiner said.

"The car," she said frantically, pointing at the vehicle.

Steiner said firefighters raised the car off Wiederer's body, but couldn't keep it elevated. Then they shoved wood under it to prop it up.

Det. Sgt. Michael Fitzharris said Vega consented to a blood-alcohol test, the results of which were not available yesterday.

A woman who answered the door at Vega's house yesterday declined to comment.

"We can't talk about it at this time," she said.

Vega's aunt, Beatriz Vega, of East Meadow, said she did not know the details of the accident, but said that her niece is "very sweet, very nice, from a good family."

"I've never seen her drinking," Vega said.

Wiederer's family said he was a graduate of Clarke High School in Westbury, where he played on their championship football team, and he also played with the Central Nassau All-Star Little League team. He briefly attended college in Florida and was working in the concrete business and playing softball for a men's league, they said.

"He cared about other people more than he cared about himself," said his brother, Michael Wiederer, 23, of Westbury. "He's the other half of me. That's half of me that's gone."


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Posted 7/24/07 7:00 PM
 
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Niblet
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Posted 7/25/07 4:08 PM
 

Shanti
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Posted 7/27/07 5:43 PM
 

CHRISTINEL
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it is horrible that someones life ended like this...

Posted 7/30/07 11:41 PM
 

Tinyswife
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Re: man killed on 7/21

He was very close friends with my brother. We both went to the fundraiser. It was sad but very nice to see the community come together to help his mom out with the funeral costs. Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon Chat Icon

Posted 7/31/07 1:42 PM
 

officiallyamrs
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Melissa

Re: man killed on 7/21

i went to high school with him too, he was such a sweetheart

Posted 9/27/07 9:59 AM
 

jandt2006
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Teresa

Re: man killed on 7/21

didn't she go to the same school? her name sounds so familiar. what year did they graduate and what hs?

Posted 10/7/07 8:35 PM
 
 

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