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The family mourns the weekend of Monroe Co.

The family mourns the weekend of Monroe Co.

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Saturday should be a typical day for Kaitlyn Ellison, a 32-year-old mother who is expecting her fourth child.

It was her last.

The mother of three children from Petersburg in Monroe County and her unborn daughter died in an accident that has led to charges for the driver involved, and had her family one one in succession, which they describe as unimaginable.

“My daughter was a very loving person for these children,” said her mother Lori Ellison. “She just wanted to do right for her children and afford things as a single mother. She would get a baby, she would go to work again, and now everything is gone.”

The crash occurred on Saturday at 10:01 p.m. in the US US-23 near the Consear Road in Whiteford Township.

The investigators said that a white Chrysler 300, who was driven by 24-year-old Hunter Suto from Oregon, Ohio, had driven the Ford Escape Ellison.

Lori Ellison was waiting for her daughter to return home from a navigation app on her phone to work in a Food Service in a Sam's club that Kaitlyn's car had been in a collision.

“Kaitlyn was such a happy girl,” said Lori Ellison. “She lit the room when she went in, she loved everyone, she had so many friends. It is now so hard without her.”

Witnesses reported that the Chrysler had supposedly drove by a high speed rate on the right shoulder vehicles. According to the authorities, Suto tried to escape and close, causing the vehicle to remove the road and rolled over a slope several times.

Ellison had to be spent out of her vehicle and was then taken to a hospital in Toledo, where she and her child were declared dead, said the Sheriff officials.

Suto initially fled on foot before the authorities found him at a petrol station on the US 223.

He was charged on Monday by the 1st District Court of Monroe for ruthless driving, which led to death and failure to stop at the damage location, which led to death, as evidenced. The bond was set at 500,000 US dollars.

A likely cause is planned for the conference for 10 a.m. on May 27th. Another hearing will follow on June 3.

Suto's lawyer Jeffrey S. Osment reached the Detroit News on Wednesday: “So far I have not received a discovery of the case and therefore cannot make any other comment than a very unfortunate and tragic situation.”

Lori Ellison said that she was “very angry with the driver who did her and her baby.

Ellison was in seventh month pregnant with a girl she wanted to call Phoenix Rose, her mother said. “Now we are planning a funeral instead of a baby shower.”

Lori Ellison is working on winning custody for her daughter's three children: Riley, 13, Ryker, 7, and Rowan, 4.

Ellison had big plans for her future and worked at the opening of an Auto -body shop after she had gone back on the college to graduate, her mother said.

“She loved cars, she loved working on cars. Everything she wanted was to promote her career and to be there for her children,” she said.

In the meantime, Ellison's sister Sarah started a Gofundme campaign to collect money for cremation and expenses to increase young people.

By Wednesday, more than 18,000 US dollars were collected of a goal of 20,000 US dollars.

afayad@detroitnews.com

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