A St. Louis teen who was in a deadly car accident days after his 18th birthday says he was victimized twice after a firefighter on the scene stole his wallet.
Seven Robinson-Laney was in a fatal car accident on Feb. 26 that claimed the lives of four of eight people riding in a Chevy Tahoe.
The accident occurred at approximately 1:30 a.m. near South Grand Boulevard and Forest Park Avenue after a driver later identified as 34-year-old Cedric Dixon ran a red light and hit the SUV Robinson-Laney was riding in that day.
The SUV went over a guardrail and landed upside down on the concrete below an overpass, killing his brother and three of the teen’s friends, 19-year-old Anthony Robinson, 19-year-old Richard Boyd, 18-year-old Bryanna Dentman-Johnson, and Corntrail McKinley, 20.
Robinson-Laney said that he was able to pull himself from the wreckage and as he lay on the ground, a firefighter at the scene asked him if he had any identification. The teen pulled out his wallet and gave it to the man, who he thought at the time was a police officer.
“I’d lost a lot of blood, and my vision was blurred, and I said, ‘Man, I don’t even know your name,’” he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “And he just told me not to worry, saying, ‘You’re good, you’re good.’”
Robinson-Laney was taken to Barnes-Jewish Hospital and asked again for his ID.
“That’s when I remembered that I’d given my wallet to someone, and I told a police officer.”
“Every time I close my eyes, I see it,” he told KSDK News with tears streaming down his face. “I can’t move my arm. You got to move it for me; I can’t move it. It hurt. You could take this off, and you can see my bone sticking up,” he added as he pointed to his arm. “All of my people,” he said. “All of ’em.”
Corntrail McKinley’s mother also accused the first responders of neglecting the victims of the crash because they saw a firearm in the SUV.
“They had…
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