{"id":227008,"date":"2026-05-11T10:39:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227008\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:39:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:39:45","slug":"community-remembers-prom-queen-aunt-killed-in-st-louis-county-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227008\/","title":{"rendered":"Community remembers prom queen, aunt killed in St. Louis County crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Family and friends honored prom queen Jordyn “Lunar” Williams and her aunt, Cherese Fisher, with balloons and doves after a fatal crash on Lewis and Clark Boulevard.<\/p>\n

BELLEFONTAINE NEIGHBORS, Mo. \u2014 Family and friends gathered to remember a high school prom queen and her aunt more than a week after a crash on Lewis and Clark Boulevard near Haviland Drive killed them<\/a> and another woman.<\/p>\n

Jordyn “Lunar” Williams and her aunt, Cherese Fisher, were honored during a memorial where loved ones shared memories, photos and prayers before releasing purple and white balloons, and doves into the sky.<\/p>\n

According to family members, Williams, 18, had been preparing to graduate from Ritenour High School and had recently been crowned prom queen.<\/p>\n

According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Williams and Fisher, 53, died after a southbound Cadillac SRX sideswiped their Lexus RX 350 on May 1 in Bellefontaine Neighbors, causing it to cross the center line and collide with an oncoming Toyota Highlander.<\/p>\n

The front end of the Toyota struck the Lexus, causing the Lexus to overturn.<\/p>\n

The Cadillac then veered off the road and crashed into a group of trees.<\/p>\n

Family and friends described the women as caring and generous people whose lives were cut short.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Jordyn and Cherese) were so loving. Everybody loved both of them,\u201d Evelyn Renee Williams, Fisher’s aunt, said. \u201cJordyn … was so outgoing … very energized. She had a lot of energy … and Cherese … was the backbone of the family.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m just going to miss them both. My heart longs for my daughter. I hurt every day,” Jordyn’s mom, Jennifer Nicole Walker Gibson, said.<\/p>\n

The driver of the Toyota, 28-year-old Andrea Medina, was also killed.<\/p>\n

In an interview last week, her brother, Juan Medina, said she was “a hardworking, kind hearted and dedicated mother. Just getting started in life. She has two kids \u2014 6 and 1 year old.\u201d<\/p>\n

St. Louis County police said Devin Daugherty was driving the Cadillac involved in the crash. He was charged<\/a> with three counts of leaving the scene of an accident and one count of driving on a revoked or suspended license.<\/p>\n

Daughterty, 20, of Moline Acres, was being held at the St. Louis County Jail on a $250,000 bond. A bond reduction hearing was schedule for Tuesday, according to online court records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Family and friends honored prom queen Jordyn “Lunar” Williams and her aunt, Cherese Fisher, with balloons and doves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-227008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}