Landscaper runs over and kills homeless woman sleeping in California park with lawnmower

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A woman was killed at a California park after she was run over by a lawnmower, the family claims investigators left “chunks” of her body scattered across the grass.

Christine Chavez, 27, was homeless and sleeping in the tall grass of Beard Brook Park in Modesto at around noon, July 8th, when a landscaper riding a John Deere tractor mowed the area.

The worker, who has not been identified said he didn’t see the woman sleeping there until he “noticed a body in the grass he had already made a pass through,” said Modesto police.

The worker called 911, but sadly Chavez was pronounced dead at the scene.

The woman’s said their grief has been worsened by what they describe as a disrespectful, botched clean-up.

“They left big chunks of her all over the place, just covered up with the grass,” the victim’s sister Rosalinda told Fox 40.

“We have to go see the place because we wanted some kind of closure, and to be right there, looking at the ground, and then all of a sudden, seeing chunks of her, is horrible.”

“Even when they go and pick up a dog from the street they take more time.”

Chavez’s father, Christopher, said he was able to pocket pieces of his daughter’s bones, skull, and teeth in the days after her death.

The deceased woman’s family feels the careless handling of her remains may have been because she was a  homeless resident of the city.

Chavez was the mother of a  9-year-old daughter, had been homeless for the last three or four years, and often slept at the park, the day before the tragedy the park was officially acquired by nearby E&J Gallo Winery, according to the Modesto Bee.

It is common for unhoused people to sleep at the 12 acres park. the park was once at one time an authorized camping site for the area’s homeless prior to the change of ownership c.

Witnesses said they saw Chavez wash her hair in the park’s creek prior to going to sleep.

The mower came through twenty minutes later.

The family is calling for justice in the death of their loved one and for stronger protection for the homeless.

“She didn’t deserve that for that reason, for being homeless,” said her older brother Randy Chavez, 33, of Arizona. “My sister was loved. The only thing she wanted was to be free.”

“We want ordinances to change so it doesn’t happen again. Regardless if they are homeless they are still people and should be treated the same as any other people.”
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