Five days after Arizona-based influencer Yarely Ashley Hermosillo died in an alleged road rage incident, her husband has spoken out.
On August 15, the 27-year-old was struck by a stray bullet while driving in her car. On Wednesday, August 20, her husband, Daniel Salgado, attended a press conference alongside her mother, sister, and the Glendale Police Department.
“It hurts to lose your other half, but when it happens in front of you and you can’t do anything, it’s a different kind of hurt,” Salgado began the family’s remarks with tears in her eyes.
“Yarely’s life was just beginning,” he told her. “We’ve just moved into our new apartment. Her social media career was just getting started, but it was cut short.
If you asked anyone who knew Yarely, they would say she was the family’s glue. She was a jokester. She was the caring person you could turn to when you needed someone to be with. She’d drop everything to be with you. “And she was an incredible cook.”
“I feel for my son when he goes to sleep at night and doesn’t get to cuddle with her,” he added, referring to the couple’s four-year-old child. “When we go for a walk, he waits to see his mommy coming out of the house, as she always would.”
Salgado then thanked law enforcement before speaking with his late wife. “Yarely. “We miss you, and I hope you receive the justice you deserve for this preventable, malicious act,” he said.
Hermosillo was well-known on social media for her cooking and lifestyle content, which she shared on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok with over 300,000 fans.
Hermosillo was remembered as “a loving wife, a devoted mother, and a beautiful soul whose light touched everyone who knew her,” according to a GoFundMe page set up to help the late influencer’s family pay for funeral expenses and the cost of raising her young son.
“She leaves behind her husband and their 4-year-old son, who now face an unimaginable loss,” the tribute says. “Yarely’s greatest joy in life was being a mother, and she poured her heart into caring for her little boy.”
The post concludes, “We are eternally grateful for every prayer, share, and donation made in Yarely’s honor.” Thank you for helping us celebrate her life, honor her memory, and love her husband, son, siblings, and mother during this difficult time. May her soul rest in peace, and may her memory be preserved through the love she freely gave.”
Jesus Preciado Dousten, 33, was arrested on Aug. 16 in connection with the influencer’s death after “an intensive investigation” by the Glendale Police Department’s Homicide Unit, according to Sergeant Bryan Hoskin.
Dousten has been charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault, weapons misconduct, and endangerment, according to police documents obtained by PEOPLE. Hoskin said he’s being held on a $1 million bond.
According to police documents that cited traffic footage, footage from a nearby gas station, and the testimony of several witnesses, Dousten was driving a pickup truck when he allegedly got into a verbal altercation with another pickup truck driver on the passenger side of his vehicle while stopped at an intersection.
As the argument progressed, the driver claimed to police that Dousten displayed a black semi-automatic handgun, pointed to the driver’s side of his truck, and yelled “you want some of this” in Spanish.
Dousten then allegedly fired the gun from the driver’s side of his truck before driving away.
According to police, Hermosillo, who was sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle to the left of Dousten’s at the time the firearm was shot, received what appeared to be a single gunshot to the right eye.
Hermosillo’s partner and mother, who were both in the car at the time of the incident, told police that they had just picked him up from work the night before the incident.
Hermosillo’s partner stated that after she was shot, he immediately drove her to a nearby hospital, where she died later that night, according to police.
Police documents also show that Hermosillo’s young son was in the vehicle at the time of the shooting.
Using police databases and cell phone records, officers tracked Dousten down to an apartment complex, where he was arrested at 10:43 p.m. the night Hermosillo died. Police say they found the gun he allegedly shot at his friend’s house earlier in the day.
According to police records, Dousten has been convicted of several crimes over the last decade, including resisting arrest in 2022 and attempted theft of a mode of transportation in 2024.
Dousten has a preliminary hearing in Maricopa County Superior Court on August 26.
