CENTENNIAL, Colo. (KDVR) — On Sunday, two people were struck and killed by a car while walking in a Centennial intersection. The sister of one of the victims is now working to repatriate her body outside the country.
Susan Azandar James, 41, was shot and killed here near the intersection of Old Smoky Hill and South Waco Street around 10 p.m. Sunday. Her sister Monet James Jeffers, who lives in Trinidad in the Caribbean, is now worried about how she will raise the money to bring her home.
Nearly a week after the incident, James-Jeffers says it’s still hard to believe.
“Sometimes, I just wish she would answer her phone,” she said.
Her sister Susan was one of six siblings, and unfortunately she was not the first in the family to be lost due to an accident. Their brother was murdered more than a decade ago.
“In the same situation he was hit by a car,” James Jeffers said.
She says Susan was visiting Colorado, where she saw the grandmother of one of her four children, ages 20 to 1. Monet says they are missing a funny, happy sister and mother.
“She had a big heart and loved her kids,” James Jeffers said.
Now, she wants to bring Susan home, hoping to bury her again in Trinidad, where her family lives.
“It will be closure for them, especially my mother,” James Jeffers said.
The cost will likely run into the thousands of dollars, and James-Jeffers won’t be able to cover it on her own. She has started a GoFundMe and hopes it will help her bring this closure for the whole family.
“I just want to get her back there so she can have her final resting place,” James Jeffers said.
You can visit it GoFundMe page by clicking here.