A Georgia mother is mourning the loss of her 6-year-old daughter killed in a fatal car accident while visiting her grandmother in Long Island, New York.
The grieving mom hopes the judge throws the book at her child’s killer when he goes to trial.
Only days away from starting first grade at College Park Elementary School just south of Atlanta, Chantel Bailee Solomon lost her life after a man police say was a drunk driver speeding 120.5 mph hit the car she was in.
One of Chantel’s last memories was piling into the car to go get ice cream with family at around 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 6. The family was celebrating their patriarch getting a new job. However, the celebration was short-lived after a collision with the driver Michael DeAngelo.
The high-speed car crash happened at Sunrise Highway and Unqua Road in East Massapequa and instantly killed three people, injuring others. Chantel and an 18-year-old girl in the car were injured and taken to the hospital.
According to Chantel’s mother, Divina Hamilton, the three people who died immediately in the crash were her stepfather Patrice Huntley and his 13-year-old daughter Hannah Huntley and 11-year-old son Jeremiah, who were Hamilton’s younger sister and brother.
Patrice Huntley, 60, was a U.S. Marine veteran and was a grandfather figure to the small girl.
“I was at the first scene in Massapequa yesterday, it was a horrific accident because of somebody driving excessively at fast speeds on our roads in Nassau County,” Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said, according to ABC 7 News.
