be your friend," Norris sang the song softly, her eyes welling with tears. "Took an oath I'm a stick it out 'til the end. Know that we still have each other.
You can stand under my umbrella. You can stand under my umbrella." Now, the aunt said, "When we listen to those words of that song the words are so true to her, we still have each other.
" Norris said that before the accident, the family was planning a Fourth of July barbecue and her nephew, Tishon Crawley, 20, offered to take the girl to the store with him to pick up a few things for the gathering. They walked hand-in-hand around the corner to the Connecticut Food Mart on Connecticut Avenue. "They had just come out of the store and were preparing to walk home when the man drove into her," Norris said.
Police said Luf, who was driving a 2001 Mercedes convertible, drove through a metal fence, up onto the sidewalk and over the child, pinning her beneath his car. While firefighters were attempting to pull the girl from beneath Luf's car, police said he admitted to officers he had been drinking at Ray's Bar in Stratford. He allegedly told them he had four mixed drinks.
"I know I hit that little girl, is that little girl OK? I only had a few drinks," police said Luf told them. Norris said she heard the commotion from around the corner and ran to the scene.
"I could see him [Luf] at the wheel and I saw my baby under his tire," she said. Norris said funeral services for Kay'Anah had not been set as of Tuesday. "This has just been a terrible tragedy for our whole family.
" be your friend," Norris sang the song softly, her eyes welling with tears.
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