Last photo of girl, 3, picking flowers minutes before she is killed in hit-and-run

This is the last heartbreaking representation of a three-year-old miss picking flowers earlier she was killed successful a hit-and-run conscionable minutes later.

Scarlett was playing with her small member Henry with their grandma Jamie watching erstwhile an out-of-control Chevy Tahoe crashed into them successful Idaho successful 2022.

Scarlett’s parent Samantha shared the photograph connected social media, writing: ‘My ma took this representation astatine 4:47 p.m. and my daughter’s clip of decease was 4:52. My ma didn’t cognize she was capturing the past moments of her life.

‘I looked astatine the timestamp and realized it was lone 5 minutes earlier her declared clip of death, truthful it indispensable person been taken seconds earlier the idiosyncratic deed them.

‘This 1 is truly hard for maine to look at, conscionable knowing what comes adjacent breaks my heart.’

Jamie had taken her grandchildren retired for crystal pick erstwhile Scarlett wanted to get retired of her buggy.

But a car ploughed into the three, with Jamie screaming astatine the operator to halt and trying to propulsion the children retired of the way.

Samantha told People: ‘Scarlett was killed astir instantly and my ma and Henry were critically injured.

‘That’s erstwhile my ma took the past representation I person of her alive.’

Henry suffered a fractured spin, six breached ribs, a breached jaw and collarbone, and a liver laceration.

He and grandma yet recovered, but the household are inactive coming to presumption with the loss.

Jim Patton, Scarlett’s grandfather, told KHQ: ‘A portion of my psyche is gone. She was ‘so afloat of life, truthful afloat of love…such a astute small girl.’

Samantha said: ‘Without Scarlett moving around, the location feels truthful quiescent and empty.

‘Some days, it feels similar I americium drowning, and immoderate days I tin tread water.’

The mum said she decided to stock her agony truthful that radical consciousness ‘okay to grieve loudly’.

‘You don’t person to bash it successful silence,’ she added.

‘Talk astir your people, shriek their names large and arrogant and ne'er halt sharing their stories.’

She besides revealed however she felt the infinitesimal she saw the last picture.

‘My ma mislaid her telephone erstwhile they were deed and it took america a portion to find it, truthful erstwhile we yet did I was going done the pictures and recovered that one,’ Samantha said. 

‘It was highly achy for maine to look astatine successful the beginning. How bash you travel to presumption with the beingness of a “last picture” of your child?’

The operator fled the country aft the accident, but is present reportedly serving a 10-year sentence.

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