FL Mother Dies 2 Months After Crash That Killed Her 2 Kids

SARASOTA, FL — A Sarasota mother has died two months after a hit-and-run crash that took the lives of two of her young children, according to multiple reports.

Family and friends confirmed Taeler Bennett, 29, died Friday from critical injuries she suffered in the crash, Fox 13 said.

Bennett and her children were hit by a Lexus while crossing N. Washington Boulevard near 7th Street the night of Feb. 10.

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Her children — 2-year-old Rio Galliher and 5-month-old Kiylan Galliher — were pronounced dead the night of the crash.

“They were such, especially Rio, he was a trip,” Candice McCormick, the boys’ great-grandmother, told WFLA. “They just moved from my house. They lived with me, but I never met Kiylan, but I did talk to them on FaceTime and get him to laugh and stuff like that.”

June Fenton, 72, the Lexus driver accused of hitting the family, left the scene without rendering aid or calling 911, Sarasota police said.

Fenton told police that she thought she hit a dog, her lawyer told police, reports said.

She was arrested in March, weeks after the crash, and charged with two counts of leaving the scene of a traffic crash resulting in a fatality and one county of leaving the scene of a traffic crash resulting in serious injury, police said.

That last charge against Fenton will be updated following Bennett’s death, the state attorney’s office told WTSP.

Fenton was released on bond following her arrest.

The boys’ grandmother told ABC 7 that she thinks Fenton’s bond should be revoked.

“It’s hard knowing that she’s getting to sleep in her own bed, getting to eat what she wants, and my grandchildren are laying in a freaking casket in the ground,” Jessica Galliher said.