‘Shattered our world’: Family still without answers after intoxicated illegal killed mother
EXCLUSIVE: An American family is still looking for answers and justice after they lost a daughter and mother in a 2001 head-on auto accident caused by an illegal immigrant driving...
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EXCLUSIVE : An American family is still looking for answers and justice after they lost a daughter and mother in a 2001 head-on auto accident caused by an illegal immigrant driving on the wrong side of a Florida highway. In video interviews by The American Border Story (TABS), which was obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital, angel mom Vickie Schermock Lyon and her grandchildren, Brieanna and Brandon Schermock, described the utter devastation they have felt after losing their daughter and mother, Dennielle Nicole ‘Nikki’ Schermock, in the collision. According to Vickie, the illegal immigrant in the other vehicle was driving under the influence of both alcohol and drugs when he veered into the opposite side of the highway in Fort Myers, Florida. While driving on the wrong side of the road, the illegal rammed his pickup truck into Nikki’s small Honda. Nikki, who was 25 years old, died instantly. The illegal, meanwhile, survived, though he was ejected from the truck and broke two legs. Brieanna and Brandon, who were just 4 years old and 16 months at the time, respectively, were also in the car at the time of the accident and were life-flighted to a hospital in Orlando. Brandon suffered skin abrasions and bruises, while Brieanna had to undergo emergency brain surgery. RACHEL MORIN'S MOTHER EXPLAINS PAINSTAKING PROCESS OF WRITING STATEMENT TO READ AT KILLER'S SENTENCING In the interview, Vickie shared that she said goodbye to her daughter for the last time just twenty minutes before the accident. When she received a call from her son, sharing the news, Vickie said she jumped into her car immediately. "I didn’t know where I was going or what I was doing. I went out, and I jumped in my car, and I just took off, and I just knew that I had to find my kids," she said. When she got to the scene, authorities and paramedics informed her that the kids had already been life-flighted to the hospital. Vickie said she could not believe her daughter was gone and kept asking, ‘Where…