MILWAUKEE — Early Friday morning, 28-year-old Ebony Johnson, 28-year-old Bobbie Dyson, and 31-year-old Lashonda Jackson were driving home from a concert and a night out.
Close to home, another car ran a red light, hitting and killing all three of the women in the other car. The driver of that other car has been arrested.
It was supposed to be a night of fun, three friends enjoying a concert and a night out together. However now, three families are grieving and in disbelief after their loved ones were killed by yet another reckless driver.
"She was fun, she was energetic, she loved everybody. She just opened up her heart to everybody," Kim Giles said.
Giles is Johnson's aunt. She raised her after Johnson's mother passed away about 16 years ago.
"She made me very proud, she always kept a good job, always been very independent," Tammy Goodman said.
Goodman's Dyson's mother. She and Giles said Dyson and Johnson were thick as thieves and cousins by blood.
"They was just always, always been so close. Even before my baby moved back here, anytime she would visit she would make sure she saw Ebony," Goodman said.
Johnson and Dyson were at a concert together Thursday night. Early Friday morning, their families got the call no one ever expects.
"I feel like she got stolen from us, she was stolen from us. Plain and simple, she was stolen from us," Giles said.
"I'll never see my daughter again. The next time I see her, I'll be looking at her in a casket. I can't get that image out of my head," Goodman explained.
It's a story this family told TMJ4 they've heard time and time again. However this time, it hits close to home.
"Enough is enough. Too many people are dying from these drivers out here that just don't care. Because if they cared, they would take their time. It's just senseless. Now you have three more families that's grieving and having to bury their loved ones because of this senseless and reckless driving," Giles added.
"Y'all took someone special," Tashianna Brown, Lashonda Jackson's sister said. "She spread love everywhere."
Jackson, Dyson and Johnson had family and friends at the scene of the crash by the dozens Friday evening. Balloons released to the sky in their memory. Lashonda's family struggling to hold back the tears when remembering the woman who meant so much to them.
"She was very compassionate, very caring, family bonded, for real," Brown said. "Family was everything for her. She put her family before anything. She made sure everyone in the family was straight before herself."
"At the end of the day, we're hurt," her brother Devonte said. "It's an innocent life that's gone that shouldn't have been gone. They didn't hurt a soul."
Including these three victims, there have been six people killed in crashes near this intersection since 2018 according to Wisconsin Community Maps statistics.
Family said they believe Milwaukee drivers are out of control. They're calling on Mayor Johnson and other lawmakers to step up and change laws to actually stop reckless driving.
Dyson leaves behind her siblings and her parents. Johnson leaves behind her 4-year-old son.
A GoFundMe fundraiser was launched for Ebony and Bobbie here.
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