VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Laquaine Coleman and Grayson Lassiter left their Virginia Beach apartment Wednesday to go have lunch at a restaurant. All seemed normal.
UPDATE: Man shot before crashing into VB apartment complex, leading to fire; Possible homicide investigation
But what they saw when they got back to their apartment building was anything but normal.
A car had crashed into their building before catching fire. The driver was found dead inside.
The apartment is no longer livable, leaving Coleman and Lassiter devastated.
"I work and come home. But now I don’t have a home to come home to because someone died in the kitchen in a car. Then the car caught on fire," Coleman said.
Coleman has lived in her apartment in Virginia Beach’s Aden Park for five years. She lost several valuables in the crash, but there was one thing that was very near and dear to her heart.
"I tried going in because my son’s urn is in there and they wouldn’t let me go in. I just broke down. I had a lot of valuables in there," Coleman said.
Coleman says her dog, Blondie, was inside the apartment during the crash and was relieved to find out she was safe.
"My dog was in the kitchen when the car drove through the house. The way this accident happened or homicide, my dog would have been dead but she wasn’t. God saved her," Coleman said.
She said she's thankful she wasn't home when it all happened.
"It’s a good thing me and my husband were not there because I usually come home on my break," she said. "I’m a nurse. I take care of my patients and come home on break and then go back."
Coleman and neighbors told News 3's Leondra Head they heard gunshots before the car crashed into the apartment. Now, Coleman and her husband are left without a home.
"Nobody deserves this. They just need to stop the violence," Coleman said.
The Red Cross will be helping Coleman and her husband for the next few days. In addition, a GoFundMe page was established Sunday afternoon.
