Fort Walton Beach,FL : Friends mourn local woman, 2 children who died in Alabama car wreck on August, Thursday 31th 2017
Fort Walton Beach, Florida
Happy Days Daycare owner Anjeanette White placed two balloons on her desk Thursday. One was Alexander McQueen from the movie “Cars” and the other featured characters from the show “Paw Patrol.”
The balloons were a small memorial honoring two of her “kids,” as she calls them: 4-year-old Machiavelli Paulk and 3-year-old Mugen Carter.
“These children have touched all of our lives,” White said. “Machiavelli started coming here at 6 weeks old. They were all very full of life. ... They were a little rough but they were ours.”
The two boys were killed in a car accident Tuesday afternoon on the northbound lane of Interstate 65 near Montgomery, Alabama, with their mother, 28-year-old Amber “Breezie” Horner.
According to a news report from AL.com, Machiavelli, Mugen and their brother, 1 1/2-year-old Roscoe Lewis, were riding in a 1997 Ford Explorer with Horner and 26-year-old Demilo Graves of Slidell, Louisiana. The Ford Explorer was struck a bridge rail on I-65 before it hit a 2012 Hyundai Santa Fe. The Ford then crossed the median and collided with a 2016 Chevrolet Malibu.
Horner and Graves were not wearing safety belts and were ejected from the car, the report said. Horner’s youngest son, Roscoe, was the only survivor.
Roscoe was taken to Children’s of Alabama hospital in Birmingham. The driver in the Chevrolet was taken to Baptist Medical Center South in Montgomery with injuries.
White said Horner had come to pick up her kids early Tuesday afternoon to head to Alabama to visit her father. She said the oldest, Machiavelli, was upset because he wanted to leave with her and spend the weekend at her house.
“You’ll be back tomorrow, I told him,” she said as she wiped away tears. “That was the last thing I said to him.”
White opened Happy Days with her family in 2014. Horner was one of her first clients. White had a special bond with her children. She has pictures of all of them on her phone, and says they’re like her grandchildren.
When she got the news of the tragedy on Tuesday evening, she screamed.
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Friends mourn local woman, 2 children who died in Alabama car wreck