The family of a 22-year-old woman is grieving after she was killed during a domestic violence incident between her and her boyfriend. Zahriya Moreno of Tuscon, AZ died during an argument with her boyfriend, 25-year-old Angelito Adrian Olivas on Monday, August 12. During the argument, Olivas began to leave in his car and Moreno jumped on the trunk of his car to stop him. Despite having seen Moreno on his trunk, Olivas drove off with her in tow, eventually knocking her off from the moving vehicle. Noticing she was unresponsive on the ground, court documents state Olivas then brought Moreno to Drexel Heights Fire Department. She was then sent to Banner University Healthcare in Tuscon, where she was declared brain dead. By Wednesday, Moreno’s family had made the painful decision to take her off life support.

Moreno was an organ donor, so she was taken on an “Honor Walk” to have her organs harvested for donation. Video of Moreno’s father, Robert Moreno, shows him sobbing over his daughter as he said his last goodbyes. More than 100 people joined the Honor Walk to support the Moreno family. It is a second devastating loss for Robert in just three short years after Zahriya’s twin brother died in 2021 after a motorcycle accident. “I’m devastated,” said Robert. “Being as we lost our twins, it’s going to be a lot of darkness in the future and we’re going to push through that as difficult as it is because that’s what our daughter would have wanted for us.” Zahriya had been a member of the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) and had planned to make a career of it, according to Robert. He did take some comfort from his daughter’s final charitable act in donating her organs. “It’s wonderful to know that parts of my baby will live on. But there’s no words, no anything that will ever be able to make this better,” he said. He was also touched by the outpouring of supporters at the Honor Walk. “I thought it was just going to be family and friends. The outpouring of support, I wouldn’t have fathomed in a million years.”

Olivas was arrested and charged with felony domestic violence, aggravated assault and felony endangerment. He was let go the day after his arrest after posting bail for $2,500. Robert was outraged at the small amount. “It almost seemed like a joke,” he said. “I'm disappointed in the judge, the legal system.”