The Focus was heading out of the mall when it collided with another vehicle, sending it careening into a ditch.
The other two passengers in the car were unhurt, but Flores, her companions, the 32-year-old police officer Shane Roper, and a 20-year-old ride-along passenger were taken to the St. Mary campus of the Mayo Clinic Hospital in a hurry.
Then, “the worst possible thing that could happen to a parent would happen to the Flores family:” a text message.
That their kid was involved in a terrible vehicle accident,” says Michael Otte, who, in the aftermath of the “tragic” event, set up a GoFundMe page to donate to the family. Death struck Flores the next day.
“Float on, my darling.” “Now, instead of organizing Olivia’s graduation celebration and commemorating her upcoming chapter in life, Steph and Carlos [her father] are left torn apart by this tragedy.”
