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Services Announced as Hit-and-Run Victim's Children Are Discharged From Hospital

Sun, 01/17/2021 - 10:02

Online donations for Yuris Murillo Cruz's funeral expenses and family surpass $200,000

Yuris Murillo Cruz, left, and a roadside memorial set up near the spot where she was struck and killed on Wednesday.
Yardley and Pino Funeral Home, Christine Sampson

Services have been planned to remember Yuris Murillo Cruz, the mother of two who died in the hit-and-run car accident in Amagansett last week. Over the weekend, her children, Josue Gael, 1, and Michelle, 4, were discharged from Stony Brook University Hospital.

Public visiting hours are from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at Yardley and Pino Funeral Home, 94 Pantigo Road in East Hampton. A funeral Mass will be said at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, 79 Buell Lane, on Tuesday at 2 p.m.

According to a relative, Angelica Marta, the children and their father are currently staying with his sister because two members of their household recently tested positive for Covid-19.

Meanwhile, community efforts to support the Murillo Cruz family are ongoing. A GoFundMe fund-raiser surpassed $100,000 over the weekend. A second GoFundMe campaign, set up by Ms. Murillo's friend Angelica Marta of Hampton Bays, had reached $82,000 as of Monday. 

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