CENTENNIAL, Colo. (KDVR) — On Sunday, two people were hit and killed by a car while walking through a Centennial intersection. The sister of one of the victims is working now to get her body returned home, out of the country.
Susan Azandar Gaymes, 41, was hit and killed here near the intersection of Old Smoky Hill and South Waco Street around 10 p.m. Sunday. A resident of Trinidad in the Caribbean, her sister, Monet Gaymes-Jeffers, is now concerned about how she’s going to raise the money to bring her back home.
Almost a week after the crash, Gaymes-Jeffers says it’s still hard to believe.
“At times, I just hope that she would just answer her phone,” she said.
Her sister Susan was one of six siblings, tragically not the first in the family to be lost to a crash. Their brother was killed more than a decade ago.
“In the same kind of situation where he was hit by a car,” Gaymes-Jeffers said.
She says Susan was visiting Colorado, seeing the grandmother of one of her four children, all between the ages of 20 and one. Monet says they’re losing a funny, happy sister and mother.
“She had a big heart and she loved her kids,” Gaymes-Jeffers said.
Now, she wants to bring Susan home, hoping to bury her back in Trinidad, where her family lives.
“It would just give them closure, especially my mother,” Gaymes-Jeffers said.
The cost is likely to be thousands of dollars, and Gaymes-Jeffers is unable to cover that on her own. She has a GoFundMe started that she hopes will help her bring that closure to the whole family.
“I just want to get her back there so she can have her final resting place,” Gaymes-Jeffers said.
You can visit that GoFundMe page by clicking here.
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