An 18-year-old Chicago student tragically passed away in a car crash hours after she attended her senior prom. Per NBC 5 Chicago, Tom Mya Lyons, a Homewood-Flossmoor High School student, died on Sunday, May 4, after the vehicle she was riding in crashed on the Sibley Boulevard ramp onto the inbound Bishop Ford Expressway.
The fatal crash is said to have happened at 4:31 a.m. Video obtained from the crash site showed that the vehicle sustained significant damage. The car’s passenger side was also said to be badly damaged.
“It’s all surreal. I can’t believe that we sent her off and celebrating her, getting ready to graduate and now we’re celebrating her leaving the Earth,” Lyons’ stepfather, Charles Parker, said. “It’s a hard pill to swallow right now.”…