Tragedy has struck the family of Atatiana Jefferson for the third time since her premature demise.
Jefferson’s dutiful sister, who spent many of the last days of her life in court hoping to see justice for her sister, has died.
On Wednesday, Feb. 1, in celebration of his birthday, civil rights attorney Lee Merritt took to his social media to promote a crowdfunding campaign for a relative of one of his clients. He shared with his 342,000 followers his desire for them to forgo giving him a gift and asked them to donate to a GoFundMe for the children of Amber Carr, the sister of a woman killed by a former Fort Worth police officer.
Jefferson’s’ sister Carr, 33, died on Monday, Jan. 30. She was also the mother of Zion, 11, Jefferson’s’ nephew, the sole eyewitness to the fatal shooting in October 2019, and who testified during the December trial. According to Merritt, she suffered from congestive heart failure, which stopped her from coming to the last days of the trial.
She was hospitalized for weeks and was informed by doctors she was not eligible for a heart transplant, ABC 8 reports.
Merritt commented on the children’s mental well-being earlier in January.
He said, “The hardest part about all of this, for me and for the family, is dealing with the children who are growing up experience trauma after trauma. Zion was 8 years old when he watched his auntie shot to death. He’s’ now playing with his mother in her hospital bedroom.”
On the morning of Carr’s’ death, he tweeted, “Amber Carr passed away peacefully this morning. She was surrounded by family and loved ones. We are asking for your continued prayers and support as her two young sons deal with her transition.”
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