A family in Riviera Beach is turning to WPTV for answers after their pregnant 18-year-old daughter was hit and killed by a car Thursday night.
“She was two minutes away from the house and I keep looking at that doorway but she never came through the door,” Andrea Dennis, the mother of the victim, said.
Sakura Jones, also known as Kira, was four months pregnant when she died last week.
“I was planning a baby shower, now I’m planning a funeral,” Dennis said. “I just want to know what happened to her.”
WPTVKira was the oldest daughter in a family of nine children.
She was a senior at Worthington High School in West Palm Beach and had plans to go to college.
“She wanted to be a pediatric nurse, and she said she was going to go on and become a doctor,” Jones said. “She was so smart and she was doing so good.”
Dennis told WPTV reporter Joel Lopez she believes Kira was walking home from her boyfriend’s house the night of the crash along Blue Heron Boulevard near JFK Middle School.