Kiera Larsen, a 10-year-old California girl was fatally struck by a runaway vehicle while heroically pushing two children out of SUV’s way, authorities told KSWB.
According to witness’s statement to KGTV, the children were playing in the yard when the car was rolling. Kiera Larsen instinctively pushed two toddlers, ages 1 and 2, out of the path of the SUV.
According to KGTV, the vehicle struck the 10-year-old and pushed her through a fence . Paramedics took the girl to a local hospital where she later died.
Jenkins and her fiancé Jonathan Gusich say they will never be able to repay Kiera for her selfless act.
According to Alissa Jenkins, mother of one-year-old Adison and two-year-old Emma, the two girls Kiera saved:
“She is truly a hero. She will forever be my kids’ guardian angel,”
“She saved both my daughters’ lives. These are my two kids that I have and both of them could’ve been gone in an instant and she stepped in and took over and did what she knows best to do — and that’s to protect those around her.
“She was a big sister to them. She was always looking out for them and apparently she gave her life for my kids, I don’t know how to repay them, repay her. She must have been the guardian angel yesterday and they’re here because of her.”
