“It’s like playing Russian roulette, somehow it was chosen that it would be her car at that time.” “Out of all the cars on the highway this had to happen to her,” Bruce added. She was just starting to blossom in her life and this freak accident happened. “She was just snatched too young, too early. “She didn’t even get an opportunity to begin her life,” Bruce said. She was a graduate student studying clinical psychology.Īs an undergraduate, Harris attended Towson University.īruce said his niece was just getting started to live an altruistic life helping children. “I don’t get it.”īruce said that Harris grew up in Olney, Maryland and had traveled the world. “This boy is 12 years old, why would he commit suicide?” Bruce said. “Marisa was his only child and she was daddy’s girl.”īut as for why she died, Bruce said his emotions are a mix of fury and confusion. “His heart is crushed, I could tell by the conversation,” Bruce said. The news of Harris’s death shook Bruce, but he said her father is especially devastated. “He’s a little bit in shock,” Bruce added of Harris’s boyfriend. The state police confirmed in a statement that the “front-seat passenger” was “was not injured” as a result of the collision. Bruce said he learned about the crash when his younger brother, Harris’s father, called him two hours later. “She was driving, her boyfriend was in the passenger seat, when all of a sudden comes this body into the windshield,” Everett Bruce told ABC News. He described her death as a “a freak accident.”
Harris’s uncle said Harris’s boyfriend was in the passenger seat at the time of the crash. “He’s still alive,” Virginia State Police Spokeswoman Corinne Geller confirmed to ABC News. The 12-year-old boy, who hasn’t been identified, was rushed to Fairfax Inova Hospital to be treated for “life-threatening injuries,” according to police. Police said the car’s passenger then “steered the vehicle off the interstate … came to a stop on the left shoulder against the jersey wall.” “The impact incapacitated the vehicle’s driver.” “Based on the investigation and witness accounts, a 12-year-old male jumped from the Cedar Lane overpass,” Virginia State Police said in a statement. The incident is being investigated as an attempted suicide, according to police. Harris was killed but her 23-year-old passenger and the 12-year-old boy both survived. when the boy came crashing down onto her 2005 Ford Explorer, Virginia State Police said in a statement. Marisa Harris, 22, was headed eastbound on Interstate 66 near the Cedar Lane overpass at around 4:15 p.m. A 12-year-old boy is recovering and remains hospitalized days after he jumped several feet. A 12-year-old boy who police said jumped off a highway overpass in an attempted suicide took the life of a young woman instead. Police officer jumps off overpass to save boy's life in daring New York rescue.
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