Bluffton mother grateful for community support as memorial crosses honor her daughter

BLUFFTON, S.C. (WTOC) – What started out as a request in an ask and answer Facebook group asking for memorial crosses to be made turned into hundreds of comments of people surrounding the family of Maya Washington with love and support.

Washington was an 18-year-old who was killed in a car crash back in September. She was a passenger in a car with two other people, who were coming home from a car show in Brunswick.

“She was a bright light,” Maya’s mother, Amy Mitchell, said. “She smiled from the inside out, and she focused on who she was on the inside most.”

According to police, the car picked up speed, ignored a stop sign, and flew off the road in McIntosh County, off exit 58…

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