Teens' Parents Say Their Bodies Were Mixed-Up After Deadly Crash and 1 of Them Wrongly Had Organs Removed
They claim the bodies of Deleigha “Leigha” Gibson, 18, and 15-year-old Samara Cooks were misidentified as each other and that funeral home employees tried to fix the mistake without letting the families know.
Further, the families say, they were not allowed to see their girls’ bodies, which would have allowed them to correct the error. According to the AP, Leigha and Samara were killed in a July 29 crash involving two of their other close friends in the Pensacola area. The “Four Amigos,” as the girls’ parents described the group, were driving around 1:30 a.m. when their vehicle veered off the road, hit a utility pole and skidded into trees.
The teens’ moms filed lawsuits in Escambia County Circuit Court after, they said, they discovered that the bodies of their daughters were wrongly tagged by authorities before being released to the funeral homes, according to the
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