Mum’s 2-year-old daughter killed by tornado as she’s giving birth to second child
A mother who left her 2-year-old daughter with her parents while giving birth to her second child lost her when a tornado unexpectedly struck.
Dominique Green dropped Aubrey at the girl’s grandparents’ mobile home in the Mississippi town of Silver City on Friday evening.
After Green went to a hospital to birth a baby boy, a tornado ripped through her parents’ neighborhood and obliterated their mobile home. Aubrey was killed, CNN reported.
Aubrey’s grandmother was also watching three other grandchildren – 8-year-old Kaleb, 7-year-old Kelsey and 1-year-old Kensley – while their mother Jessica Drain, who is Green’s sister, was working. Additionally, the grandparents had their own two children, aged 10 and 11, with them in the home.
The twister hit seemingly without warning, said Drain’s aunt JoAnn Winston, who lives next to the mobile home.
‘I heard something like a train… my older son was saying, “Get down on the floor get down on the floor!”’ Winston told CNN.
‘I didn’t see no house no nothing and I looked around and I seen the baby laying a little bit far from her grandmother. The ambulance had her and were doing CPR on her.’
Aubrey’s body was found amid the debris. She was a happy and sweet girl and loved to dance and play on a rocking horse, according to Winston.
At the time of her daughter’s death, Green was still in the hospital after birthing a healthy son, Drain said.
The tornado also left Drain’s son Kaleb with a severe brain injury.
‘I received a phone call at work saying a Tornado hit Silver City Ms. Kaleb (my son) was injured badly. Bleeding from the head. He is on (a) ventilator and cant breath on his own. One of his fingers on his left hand is broken,’ wrote Drain in a GoFundMe page for her son.
Drain told CNN that she felt ‘pain, hurt and frustration for not being able to get to my son or my niece in time’.
The fundraiser for Kaleb had garnered more than $54,500 as of Wednesday evening.
A series of twisters killed at least 21 people in Mississippi over the weekend. Aubrey died and Kaleb was injured on the same day that eight restaurant workers cheated death in Rolling Fork, Mississippi. The owner of Chuck’s Dairy Bar told her employees to run into a walk-in refrigerator moments before a twister tore through the diner, saving them all.
‘Thank god we’re alive,’ the owner Tracy Harden told ABC News’ Good Morning America. ‘But also we’re so devastated by the loss.’
The twisters that battered Mississippi as well as Alabama and Georgia on Friday and into the weekend may not be the last of deadly weather in the region this month. According to Fox Weather, severe weather outbreak with tornadoes could strike 20 states late this week.
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