Brittanee Parker had a way of uplifting people.
She wouldn’t let you belittle yourself, her best friend Ann “Sabi” Kinyanjui said.
“She was going to tell you something positive,” Kinyanjui said Monday.
Parker, a 32-year-old Hilltop resident, was “always laughing,” “a light” and someone who “connected on the level that people were at,” people who knew her told The News Tribune. She died earlier this month in an incident that friends and family said has left them with unanswered questions. A GoFundMe for Parker’s funeral expenses had raised $3,400 as of Oct. 14.
Tacoma Police Department spokesperson Shelbie Boyd told The News Tribune via email Monday that officers responded at about 7:30 a.m. on Oct. 4 to the area of 800 S. 11th St., where a woman was down in the street. Passersby and first responders performed CPR but were unable to save her. Parker was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
“I was shocked. I was livid how someone could just leave a person that they hurt on the street, just lifeless, basically, and I was sad because she was taken from us way too soon,” Kinyanjui said.