Birthday Vigil For Girl Killed In Accident

Crash Toulminville A Toulminville community marches on what would have been Alyasia Marks 3rd birthday.

by Chad Petri

Published: Sun, September 13, 2009 - 9:10 pm CST Last Updated: Sun, September 13, 2009 - 9:15 pm CST

MOBILE, Alabama - It's a birthday wish for a little girl who lit up one Toulminville community.

“She made all of us laugh in the complex, she'd visit us but she wouldn't let us visit her she would not let us in her house she had a saying you can't come into my house and we janked her about that,” says neighbor Elizabeth Brazelton. Alyasia Marks was a the toddler killed in a car accident last month. Tonight, family and friends marched from Alaysia's Toulminville home to the crash site. The piled gifts and left toys and trinkets for the little girl. Family and friends say they wanted to do this for the young girl because she was special

“She was just the light of the party, she was more than a cousin she was pretty much like a little sister to everybody,” says cousin Kierra Shian. Alaysia's mother also attended.

“It means so much to me and I thank everybody for their prayers and their thoughts doing this for me,” says Andriana Marks. She was being pushed in a wheelchair Sunday night, 9/13/09. She’s healing from her physical and emotional wounds.

“I'm blessed, I'm going to get well, I'm doing better,” says Marks. Andriana Marks was five months pregnant at the time of the crash. She says her unborn child is doing fine.

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