HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Edward Abbott said he could hear the fear in his niece’s voice when he listened to a 911 call she made just minutes after the pickup truck she was driving crashed on I-94, killing her best friend.
“She knew when it happened, what had happened, there was no going back,” Abbott said. “She was scared to death.”
Ceara Abbott, 20, of Chesterfield Township, made the 911 call at about 2:30 a.m. Thursday after the crash happened in the westbound lanes near Shook Road.
Wickersham said a fight between Mullins and the Eastpointe woman got physical, and Mullins climbed from the front seat to the back seat.
Wickersham said the distraction of the fight may have caused Ceara Abbott to lose control. Mullins was thrown from the pickup truck in the crash and died.
“Ceara will have to pay the price for what has happened,” Edward Abbott said. “But don’t believe for a minute that my family isn’t dying inside. Not only did that one action destroy the life of Samantha and her family, it destroyed both families.”
Ceara Abbott is facing drunken driving charges. Results of a blood alcohol test are pending.
“No matter what the court does to her, Samantha was her best friend since they were little kids,” Edward Abbott said.