A Louisiana couple planning to marry in February was killed less that two hours apart in separate car crashes.
They leave behind a 4-year-old son who’s trying to comprehend the unlikely tragedy.
“He understands what happened, and he’s just having a little problem comprehending that we can’t talk to them,” said Sandra Collins, whose 35-year-old son John “J.R.” Collins was killed last week when he plowed into a tree after being told his fiancee, Alexus Lee, had just been involved in a serious crash.
Louisiana State Police responded to a 2 a.m. crash involving Lee’s 2013 Toyota Highlander, that they said exited a roadway, struck a culvert, and overturned Friday.
At 3:45 a.m., they got a call about a single-car crash involving a 2016 Chevrolet Camaro hitting a tree “at a high rate of speed.”
That car belonged to Collins, who was tossed from his vehicle and pronounced dead on the scene.
Neither victim was wearing a seatbelt.
According to Baton Rouge station WAFB, Collins was rushing to the scene where Lee’s SUV flipped after she lost control of her vehicle.
Lee, 25. was a recent Southern University graduate who taught at East Feliciana STEAM Academy. Collins was a truck driver. The pair had recently purchased a home and were planning their futures together, according to WAFB.
Funeral services for Collins and Lee were held simultaneously on Wednesday in the northern Louisiana town of Clinton.
