‘She was just happy, like a butterfly’: Woman dies protecting stepdaughters in wrong-way crash

SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio woman is dead, and two young girls are recovering after a wrong-way driver slammed head-on into their car just blocks from home.

The crash happened around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 3800 block of Harry Wurzbach Road, near Eisenhauer Road. Loved ones say 28-year-old Karina Ramirez had just left the store a second time after forgetting something. She was around the corner from home when a pickup truck traveling in the wrong direction hit her vehicle.

Inside the car with her were two young girls: 9-year-old Skylar Wolford and 7-year-old Aliyah Frautschi. Though not her biological children, Karina had considered them like her own…

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