From running a half marathon to getting married, pictures take Mark Hagen back to his favorite memories.
“The smile you see here is the smile she had on her face all the time.”
They highlight some of his daughter Erin Mogensen’s biggest milestones in her 32 years of life.
“I’ve never heard her so excited as the day she called me to tell me that they were expecting,” Hagen said.
Erin’s next milestone was supposed to be becoming a mother. That dream was shattered last fall.
“Erin’s phone had detected a crash and there was an SOS,” Hagen recalled. “I was listed as her emergency contact on her cell phone.”
He got an alert on his phone that she was in a crash just three blocks from her home.
“I called her probably a dozen times begging her to call me back because I was starting to get worried.”
He drove straight there and learned Erin and her unborn baby were killed. Wauwatosa police say they were chasing the person who caused the crash after he pulled away from a traffic stop. Surveillance video shows the driver running away after hitting Erin’s car.