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FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — A family was forced to make a heartbreaking decision after their loved one was seriously injured in a Forsyth County crash.
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Five days after a crash left 61-year-old Bob Marcis with life-threatening injuries, his family has decided to take him off life support.
Don Marcis says his son’s life was never supposed to end like this. His family is in Wisconsin, and his father couldn’t make the trip, so he video-called to see his son one last time.
“I’ll miss his phone calls, happy birthday, happy Father’s Day, Merry Christmas, and all that. We talked a lot at least once a week,” Marcis said.
The Crash
Bob Marcis had left work early Thursday afternoon for an eye exam. His family says that’s what brought him to the intersection of Patterson Avenue and Germanton Road around 2:45 p.m.
There, Eleazar Bernadino Medina, 16, allegedly crashed into Bob Marcis’s vehicle.
Police say Medina had been “driving erratically” in the area of Indiana Avenue and North Patterson Avenue earlier that afternoon. When officers tried to pull him over, he reportedly refused to stop. Police started to pursue Medina but called it off due to high speeds.
Law enforcement attempted another stop when the vehicle was spotted again driving erratically. The vehicle sped off and crashed at the intersection of Patterson Avenue and Germanton Road, hitting Bob Marcis’s vehicle.
Medina was charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, felony hit and run with serious injury or death, felony fleeing to elude arrest, misdemeanor reckless driving to endanger, misdemeanor speeding, misdemeanor resisting a public officer, misdemeanor no operators license and failing to stop at a steady red light.
Medina’s mother, Adilene Medina Calleja, 35, was charged with misdemeanor contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile and misdemeanor allowing an unlicensed driver.
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Remembering Bob Marcis
Bob Marcis’s family made the difficult choice to take him off life support five days after the crash.
“He would be bedridden and need constant care, you know, feeding. Probably a nursing home type of thing, and he would not want that,” said his brother, Bill Marcis.
His family takes some comfort in knowing that Bob was an organ donor, so a piece of Bob will live on, giving others the gift of life.
“I’m pretty proud of his decision to do that. It makes me feel good to know that he has given back. We’ve been given life, and he is giving it back to help others, so that’s something to be proud of,” said Bill.
There’s a lot his family has to be proud of. They say Bob was hardworking, landing a job with his uncle, NASCAR driver Dave Marcis.
“He went south, got a job with my uncle, worked for him, I’m thinking about 20 years,” said Bill.
Bill says his brother even tried out racing for himself.
His brother also says Bob was strong. He was a cancer survivor, and, in a bittersweet twist, his family learned Bob is still cancer-free.
“When they did the brain scan for the accident MRI, that they did that showed the tear that he was cancer-free,” said Bill.
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As his family says their final goodbyes, they hold onto their memories together.