‘It’s eating us alive’: Parents reveal horrifying truth about death of 22-year-old daughter on Dave & Buster’s night out

Mercedes Vega

Mercedes Vega pictured (inset) and in surveillance footage looking at her phone as she walks into apartment parking garage to meet friends at Dave & Busters (images via KTVK/KPHO)

The parents of 22-year-old Mercedes Vega, a club dancer from Tempe, Arizona, who was found dead in a burning car hours after she left her apartment to meet friends at Dave & Buster’s in April, are speaking out about the torture their daughter suffered in her last moments alive.

Tom Pillsbury and Erika Pillsbury sat down for a heart-wrenching interview with local Arizona station KTVK/KPHO and revealed surveillance video that showed Mercedes was looking at her phone — seemingly without a “care in the world” — as she entered her apartment parking garage on April 16 for a night out with friends.

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