Loved ones are mourning the sudden death of a young mother who was killed when the car she was in slammed into a fire truck near Compton.
The crash happened around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday at the intersection of Avalon and Compton boulevards, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The agency said two cars were reportedly racing down Compton Boulevard when one of them, a PT Cruiser, collided into the fire truck. Allen-Bookman and the male driver died at the scene. Surveillance video from a local business captured the moment the crash occurred, with sparks flying across the pavement as the car slammed at high speeds into the fire truck. Four firefighters suffered minor injuries.The driver of the other car drove off and is now being looked for.
Derrick Cooper runs the L.A. City Wildcats Youth Academy and took care of Allen-Bookman's daughter in daycare. He said Allen-Bookman was an involved and dedicated mother who lived for her daughter.Cooper is pleading for the other driver to surrender. "If it was me, I couldn't sleep at night if I knew I had done this to someone's child. The baby is only 3 years old," Cooper said. "She's gonna now have to grow up without a mother. This person, you know who you are. Do the right thing, turn yourself in and let's start the process so we can start healing."
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