INDIANAPOLIS–Family, friends, and community leaders gathered to remember three teenagers who were hit by a car and killed on the north side of Indianapolis Saturday morning.
A memorial service was held for 14-year-old David Evans, 13-year-old Tyjiana Velez, and 15-year-old Kierra Brown at the Purpose of Life Church on Kessler Boulevard Monday morning.
“It’s the worst pain, y’all,” said Lashana Martin, Velez’s mother at the service. “I don’t wish this pain on nobody.”
Martin recalled the moment early Saturday morning when she was told about the incident.
“I had to pull up to the scene and see my baby laying there with a white sheet on her. I never thought in a million years I’d see that,” Martin said.
Kashonna Brown is Kierra Brown’s mother.
“I would’ve never thought in a million years that my baby would be taken away from me. This is a nightmare and I can’t wake up,” Brown said.
Brown said she’s seen a disturbing trend on the street where her child was killed.
“These people are drag racing up and down these streets and they took these babies lives,” Brown said.
Guests released balloons into the sky to honor all three of them.
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department says the three teenagers were walking on West Kessler Boulevard North Drive near West 38th street around 1:20 am Saturday when two cars going south collided and lost control just after crossing 38th street. Another car went across the median and hit another car sending that car off the road to the right and hitting all three teenagers.
The drivers of all three cars have been found. IMPD says those drivers have agreed to toxicology tests. Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears will decide later if the drivers will face criminal charges.
