A TikTok star and her mother tragically passed away from a car crash on June 19 in Houston.
While many Black Americans were celebrating the Juneteenth holiday on Monday, Tiffany Cofield was finding two of her family members had been victims in a car crash on a Houston street. She is the sister of popular TikToker Britney Joy Murphy and the daughter of Sherie Smith. Both women were headed to a Juneteenth celebration.
According to 11Alive News, Murphy collided with a pickup truck on West Tidwell Rd. near T.C. Jester Park. The 35-year-old lost control of her Honda Civic and crashed into a tree. Cofield drove by the crash and immediately knew it was her sister.
“It looked like her car and everybody, when I was walking up, said a mom and daughter died and I knew they had left and knew the only mom and daughter would be my mom and sister,” Cofield said to ABC 13.
Cofield started a GoFundMe page to help with funeral costs. She wrote that the driver of the pickup was being “reckless,” but didn’t provide any further details on how the driver was being reckless behind the wheel. She also wrote that her mother and sister’s bodies will be shipped to California.
“There will never be a time when I won’t miss my mother and my sister. They were my best friends. They were everything,” Cofield said through tears to ABC 13.
Houston police said that the pickup truck that Murphy collided also hit another vehicle before flipping truck and landing on its roof. The 18-year-old driver survived and was taken to a hospital for minor injuries. The driver of the third vehicle was not harmed. No one has been cited or charged but the investigation is ongoing. Police already ruled out intoxication being a factor in the accident.
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