Community remembers hit-and-run victims

NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - It was a somber nighttime for a assemblage successful mourning arsenic they came unneurotic to retrieve 2 children tragically killed successful a hit-and-run.

Several different children are warring for their lives.

Time stopped for Tyricka Williams and her 2 girls Monday. Six-year-old Andrea is gone, and her 9-year-old girl Draya is warring for her beingness successful a infirmary bed. 

Four days after a car clang successful Wilton Manors shattered their family, a solemnisation of Andrea’s abbreviated life. 

Friends, family, children and tons of purple balloons.

“Purple is her favourite color,” said Williams. “I’m blessed close present due to the fact that she an angel.”

“She was a bully small girl, smart, educated, she loved her mom, loved her grandma,” said Sylvia Jenkins, Andrea’s aunt.

The world of what happened Monday is inactive mounting in.

Investigators accidental 27-year-old Sean Greer sped astir a bus, overcorrected and swerved into six children lasting on Northwest Ninth Avenue successful Wilton Manors.

Greer, they said, simply took off.

Andrea and 5-year-old Paris Jones would dice astatine the scene.

Four others were rushed to the hospital.

They see 10-year-old Jonathan Carter and 9-year-old Lazyiyah Stuks, whose parent writes connected a GoFundMe leafage that she’s suffering from breached legs, a encephalon injury, and is breathing with the assistance of a ventilator.

Andrea’s sister Draya had been trapped nether a parked car, freed by Good Samaritans who rushed successful to help.

“Her caput is split, her encephalon is swollen,” said Williams.

While the tears inactive travel connected this Thursday night, the girls’ parent is focusing connected being thankful for the lives of some of her girls.

“I convey you each for this emotion for Andrea, purple for Andrea,” said Williams.

A GoFundMe leafage has been created for Jones’ household to assistance with ceremonial arrangements and different expenses. If you would similar to marque a donation, click here.

Another GoFundMe leafage has been acceptable up to assistance the household of Andrea and Draya Fleming. If you would similar to marque a donation, click here.

A GoFundMe leafage has been acceptable up for the household of Laziyah Stukes. If you would similar to marque a donation, click here.

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