{"id":1774,"date":"2022-03-25T07:36:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T07:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/relatives-friends-mourn-6-oklahoma-girls-killed-in-crash-new-york-post\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T07:36:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T07:36:22","slug":"relatives-friends-mourn-6-oklahoma-girls-killed-in-crash-new-york-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/25\/relatives-friends-mourn-6-oklahoma-girls-killed-in-crash-new-york-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Relatives, friends mourn 6 Oklahoma girls killed in crash &#8211; New York Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \t\t<button type='submit' class='pushbutton-wide'>Submit<\/button>\t\t<input type='hidden' name='contact-form-id' value='21642265' \/> \t\t<input type='hidden' name='action' value='grunion-contact-form' \/> \t\t<input type='hidden' name='contact-form-hash' value='795f4ccb6afdd20c9152e7b646cda9769b53620d' \/> \t<br \/> \t\tThanks for contacting us. We&#039;ve received your submission.\t<br \/>Devastated relatives and friends are mourning the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/22\/6-teenage-students-killed-in-oklahoma-car-crash\/\">six teen girls killed in a crash with a truck in a small Oklahoma town<\/a> as they struggle to process why the young women were \u201ctaken\u201d too soon.<br \/>The teens \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/24\/6-teens-killed-in-oklahoma-crash-identified\/\">identified by friends and family<\/a> as Gracie Machado, Brooklyn Triplett, Austin Holt, Madison Robertson, Addison Gratz and Memory Wilson &#8212; were packed into a four-seat 2015 Chevrolet Spark when the subcompact car collided Tuesday with a semi-truck in Tishomingo.<br \/>\u201cI can\u2019t even begin to express the heartbreak I know many families are feeling right now,\u201d Madison&#8217;s aunt, Falesha Roberts, wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/falesha.ferrariroberts.3\/posts\/659377028704733\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a> on Tuesday.<br \/>Roberts shared several photos of her niece and called her an \u201cirreplaceable gift from God.\u201d<br \/>\u201cI\u2019ll be forever grateful that I got to see your smile, know your kindness, and that I could call you my niece Madison Patience Michelle Robertson! Your beautiful soul remains with us all, while you inherited your wings today!!\u201d she wrote.<br \/>Natalie Houston, who said she was a relative of Austin Holt&#8217;s from the nearby town of Ada, asked for prayers for the teen&#8217;s younger sister, Joy.<br \/>\u201cShe is having a hard time and feels like it\u2019s a joke. I don\u2019t know why these tragic things happen,&#8221; she wrote on Facebook.<br \/>Houston said Austin was a &#8220;great big sister&#8221; and Joy will &#8220;never forget her.&#8221;<br \/>\u201cShe was a gorgeous, intelligent young lady taken way [too] soon for reasons unknown to me!\u201d her post continued.<br \/>Sadie Machado, Gracie\u2019s sister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=2759150234392857&amp;id=100008937226722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted a photo<\/a> of the two hugging each other in happier times along with a broken heart emoji.<br \/>\u201cMy best friend,\u201d Sadie wrote in the post.<br \/>An online fundraiser set up by a family friend to remember victim Brooklyn Triplett had garnered some $1,500 as of Thursday.<br \/>\u201cBrooklyn was an amazing kid, she loved her family and friends wholeheartedly,\u201d the fundraiser reads. \u201cShe was a loyal friend and one hell of a ball player! She will be missed deeply by our family.\u201d<br \/>Brooklyn, an avid softball player, was also a cheerleader with a team in Davis, according to the fundraiser.<br \/>Residents in Tishomingo, meanwhile, were paying tribute to the girls with a growing memorial at the crash site, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox23.com\/news\/how-you-can-help-families-tishomingo-who-lost-their-six-girls-car-accident\/UT3UKNYG2VHF7P3637S5EBJCVE\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KOKI reported<\/a>. Their former high school also placed bouquets with their names on them outside its front door, the station reported.<br \/>The small town of roughly 3,000 is also adorned with many \u201cTishomingo Strong\u201d signs and the girls\u2019 funerals have already been paid for after a local bank started a donation drive, KOKI reported.<br \/>Country music star Blake Shelton, an Oklahoma native who has a home just outside Tishomingo, said in a statement Wednesday he was still in shock after the \u201cunthinkable\u201d tragedy.<br \/>\u201cI personally know the devastation of suddenly losing a loved one in a car accident,\u201d Shelton told KOKI. \u201cBut our community is strong and has come together to support and wrap our arms around the families and friends that are hurting the most. There\u2019s no question it will take a long time to heal from this tragedy. Keep the prayers coming.\u201d<br \/>Share Selection<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/24\/relatives-friends-mourn-6-oklahoma-girls-killed-in-crash\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submit Thanks for contacting us. We&#039;ve received your submission. Devastated relatives and friends are mourning the six teen girls killed in a crash with a truck in a small Oklahoma town as they struggle to process why the young women were \u201ctaken\u201d too soon.The teens \u2014 identified by friends and family as Gracie Machado, Brooklyn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}