Family says girl, 13, was killed by car while going out for ice cream in Kansas City
It was about 90 degrees out when 13-year-old Isata Mansaray got off a Kansas City bus in pursuit of ice cream with her friends.
Instead, she was struck by a vehicle as she crossed the road, loved ones said. She died on Thursday, after 11 days in the hospital.
Loved ones said she died of a brain injury. They recently created a GoFundMe, asking for financial help to bury Isata.
“She love life and most of all my family,” the GoFundMe reads. “She was just being a kid hanging with a few friends and we were heading to get Ice cream.”
Just before 5 p.m. on June 11, officers were dispatched to East 63rd Street and The Paseo on a crash.
Police said a teenager got off a KCATA bus and then crossed in front of the bus into the westbound lanes of East 63rd Street.
As Isata was crossing, a Volkswagen Jetta passed the bus, traveling through a green traffic signal, and hit the teenager, according to the initial police report. Isata was thrown onto the car’s windshield and then landed on the pavement in the middle of the intersection, police said.
Sgt. Jake Becchina, a Kansas City Police Department spokesman, said in an email that investigators were notified of her death by hospital staff Thursday. The teenager’s identity has not yet been released by police.
“Now that this has happened so fast leaving our family struggling to put her to rest. Please help my family send her off to her home coming,” loved ones wrote in the GoFundMe.
As of Tuesday afternoon, about $1,500 had been raised for the family.
This is the 48th crash-related death this year in Kansas City, according to police data.
