{"id":36557,"date":"2023-09-29T16:22:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T20:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=36557"},"modified":"2023-09-29T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T20:22:39","slug":"family-killed-in-plant-city-train-crash-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/09\/29\/family-killed-in-plant-city-train-crash-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"Family killed in Plant City train crash remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

More than 100 people gathered Thursday evening to remember the family killed in a Plant City when the SUV they were driving in was hit by a train on Sept. 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office said five members of the Hernandez family, along with two friends of the children, were in the vehicle on their way to a birthday party when it was hit by a train while crossing tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Loved ones arrived at the home of a family friend carrying balloons and wearing red and white. The colors were in honor of Aniella Hernandez, 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would say her favorite color was red,\u201d said Jadiaya Gordon. \u201cHer car was red. She went to Valdosta State \u2014 their colors are red, white, and black. When I think of the color red from now on, I\u2019m gonna think of her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gordon said her brother began dating Aniella \u2014 who friends and family called \u201cAni\u201d \u2014 almost eight years ago, when they were freshmen in high school.

\u201cShe was known as Fly Girl Ani, Fly Girl AV. She was just a beautiful spirit, gone too soon,\u201d said Gordon. \u201cAll of them were beautiful people. Loved me and my family like we were their kin.\u201d

Aniella and her parents, Jose Hernandez, 52, and Enedelia Hernandez, 50, and siblings Alyssa, 17, and Julian, 9, were killed when their car was hit by the train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friends of Alyssa Hernandez said style ran in the family.

\u201cWe would all sit in class waiting for her to come into class with her beautiful outfits. She never re-wore one,\u201d said Alivia Baker.

They said the teen dreamed of going to the University of Florida and was among the brightest in their college prep class.

\u201cI saw her paper, and it was, like, top one, and she showed it to me secretly. She didn\u2019t want me to tell anybody, and I\u2019m like, \u2018How aren\u2019t you bragging about this?\u2019 And she always didn\u2019t want to make anybody feel like less,\u201d said Daghnne Guzmana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Loved ones released balloons all at once – a symbol of the Hernandez family\u2019s unity. With it came an outpouring of emotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat was my brother\u2019s soul mate,\u201d said Gordon. \u201cHe\u2019s definitely gonna miss her a lot. They\u2019ve been in love since they were kids, so it\u2019s gonna be really hard for him. I just ask that the community keep him and her family uplifted.\u201d

The other person killed in that crash was 17-year-old Jakub Lopez. Another passenger, Guillermo Gama, was seriously injured but is expected to survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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