BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) -- A man leaped into a canal and smashed through a car window to save his estranged wife and their two children after she drove into the water in an alleged murder-suicide attempt.
Ingrid Oviedo and the children, ages 3 and 7, were not hurt.Oviedo was separated from her husband and angry at what she regarded as meddling by her relatives, investigators said. She allegedly told relatives: "Tomorrow, you're going to bury three because you will not see the kids again."
Oviedo, 27, was ordered held without bond Tuesday on charges of attempted murder and aggravated child abuse and will receive a mental health evaluation.
Before driving into the 15-foot-deep water Monday, Ingrid Oviedo called her cousin from the car and asked her to contact her husband, Miguel, and tell him to meet them at the canal, sheriff's deputies said.
The cousin and husband arrived, and the cousin raced to the car, asking Ingrid Oviedo to open the door. She refused to let the pleading children out and drove into the canal, investigators said.
Her husband jumped in and smashed the rear window of the car, and he and the cousin pulled the three out.