National City family honors teen cyclist fatally hit by car on his way to school – NBC 7 San Diego

Flowers and candles were placed as a memorial near Avenue J and E. 18.^th Street in National City where a tragic accident occurred which cost the life of a high school student.

“Edgar was a very enthusiastic, athletic young man who loved life,” said Brenda Burciaga, Edgar’s mother.

This is how Edgar's mother remembers her son.

She spoke to him Tuesday morning before he biked to school, but she never imagined what would happen.

“The police called me around 10 a.m. to tell me that Edgar had been hit by a car,” she said.

When she arrived at the hospital, Edgar was unconscious.

“The doctors told us his pressure was high and he needed to have surgery,” Burciaga said.

Edgar underwent surgery and his family hoped he would recover.

On Wednesday, they celebrated his 18th birthday^th birthday at the hospital by singing happy birthday to him at his bedside.

On Thursday, Edgar's condition worsened and doctors told his family he was brain dead.

His family said Edgar was larger than life and always had a heart for others.

“That’s why his father and I decided he was the ideal candidate to donate his organs to those in critical health conditions,” she said.

Edgar was a son, brother and senior at Sweetwater High School in National City. He was supposed to graduate next week.

“I am very proud of him, of his life and of everything he was,” said Rutilio de Haro, Edgar’s father.

On Sunday, they plan to present him with his cap and gown and have a special ceremony to celebrate his gift of life, his birthday and his graduation.

“A group of us will be dressed in white with handkerchiefs and he will be escorted down the hall to the operating room,” his mother said.