Truck driver posts regrets about party a day before dying of coronavirus - TribLIVE

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— After months of diligently isolating, truck driver Tommy Macias, 51, made one error that cost him his life.

“It was all preventable,” said Gustavo Lopez, Macias’ 52-year-old brother-in-law.

More than 10 others who attended that gathering have tested positive for the coronavirus, Lopez said.

“I could hear it in his voice, he was terrified,” Macias Norris said.

He was heavily breathing and crying, but his last words to me were ‘I want to go home, Sis., I want to go home, Sis.’”.

By 9 that night, Macias Norris received a call from the hospital with the news that her brother had died.

At this time last year, Lopez said, she would spend afternoons barbecuing with her family or relaxing in a boat on Lake Elsinore.

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