A Georgia mother, Tangenika Lee, has narrated how the tragic loss of her son’s ashes in transit is devasting her life.
Lee said she is now grappling with the loss of her teenage son twice over — first to a devastating drug overdose in 2020 and then to the alleged negligence of UPS during a recent shipment.
Deontray, Lee’s son, succumbed to a fentanyl overdose at the age of 15. Following his memorial, the family opted for cremation and planned to place his ashes in a custom urn.
However, during a shipment from Georgia to Connecticut for the urn’s creation, the ashes went missing, leaving Lee devastated.
Despite rigorous tracking efforts, it was revealed that Deontray’s remains were lost in transit, turning a grieving mother’s emotional turmoil into a harrowing ordeal.
According to one account of the story published on The Atlanta Black Star, desperate for answers, Lee initiated investigations, involving the police and filed a missing package report with UPS.
She even reviewed security camera footage at the UPS facility where she dispatched the package, but the efforts yielded no positive outcome.