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The devastation,
which happened in an instant, was powerful — three 13-year-old girls
killed by an alleged drunken driver who later fled the country.
Now the impact of that tragedy has widened with the suicide of a 14-year-old girl who survived the wreck.
Bennisha Davis was
haunted by last month's deaths of her sister and two best friends in
the northeast Houston crash. The 14-year-old Humble girl could not
understand why she had survived while they had not.
The grief was
apparently too much for the Ross Sterling Middle School student to
bear. Davis fatally shot herself in the chest Thursday inside the
family's home in the 15800 block of Marsh Hawk while her mother was at
work.
Her sister,
Detrihanna Davis, and her two best friends, Avianca Cortez and
RaShaunda Raleigh, had died after suffering fatal injuries in the wreck.
"Bennisha took it
real hard when she found out about it," said her grandmother, Diane
Blakes of Houston. "It just did something to her, I guess — and we
weren't really aware. Well, we knew she was hurting, but we didn't know
she was hurting that bad."
Blakes said she
later found a note Bennisha had typed on a computer which stated she
missed her sister and friends and wondered why they had died when she
survived. Her note also lamented that justice might never be served
since the driver who caused the crash had fled the country.