A determined Ohio single mother died Thursday when she was thrown from the hood of her personal automotive whereas making an attempt to avoid wasting her 6-year-old son throughout an tried carjacking.
Alexa Stakely, 29, pounced onto the entrance of her Honda and wound up smashing her head on the pavement after two suspects tried to take the automotive whereas her son, Deluca, was sleeping inside outdoors a babysitter’s house in Columbus.
“She’s all the time been a really particular particular person to me and was all the time extraordinarily clever and a really brilliant child,” Stakely’s youthful step brother Hayden Swartz instructed The Publish Friday.
“She didn’t develop up underneath the perfect circumstances family-wise, however all the time made essentially the most of each state of affairs and had a really glass-half-full view of every part. She crushed each aim she made for herself.”
Stakely, a preschool instructor, had been selecting up her son from his babysitter at an condo advanced at about 1:30 a.m. when the tragic incident occurred, cops mentioned.
After placing the older boy within the automotive, she double-backed inside the home to seize one thing she had forgotten, police mentioned.
When she returned, she noticed the automobile starting to again from its parking house and realized a thief was stealing it with by the kid inside.
She leaped onto the entrance of the automotive and was thrown from the automobile because the criminal tried to race away.
She slammed her head on the pavement and later died at Mount Carmel East hospital.
The thieves stopped the automotive close by within the advanced’s car parking zone, hopped out and escaped over a fence.
Two males matching the identical description because the suspects had been caught on surveillance video, however stay at massive.
Neighborhood members flooded the Columbus Division Police Fb to mourn and name on the neighborhood to hunt justice for her.
Stakely labored as a speech and language pathologist in Canal Westchester Faculties. She was coming from her waitress shift, a second job she labored to assist assist her household, when she was selecting up her son.
Swartz recalled one evening when Stakely was in highschool the place she put aside her mountain of homework to assist him research for an examination – exhibiting she already had all of the qualities of a very good instructor earlier than she even began on that path.
“She sat me down and was like ‘you’re gonna ace this check tomorrow’ and we studied for all of it evening,” Swartz mentioned.
“She made a bunch of flash playing cards for me and he or she sat me down and we studied all evening lengthy.”
He mentioned the household has gotten a big outpouring of assist.
“We’ve had lots of people attain out who knew her, whether or not they taught her youngsters or labored together with her, everyone says the identical factor, that her persona was so bubbly and that she had a constructive influence on everybody,” Swartz mentioned.
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