{"id":14370,"date":"2025-10-25T02:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/14370\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T02:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T02:30:07","slug":"mom-of-man-killed-in-philly-jet-crash-gifted-with-painted-home-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/14370\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom of man killed in Philly jet crash gifted with painted home \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A gift of tender kindness is now permanently on display in Northeast Philadelphia after a local veteran-owned paint company brought a little light to a woman&#8217;s world that has been dark since Jan. 31. <\/p>\n<p>Amira Brown&#8217;s world had turned upside down when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/ground-zero-how-one-business-rebuilt-6-months-after-deadly-northeast-philly-jet-crash\/4247010\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/ground-zero-how-one-business-rebuilt-6-months-after-deadly-northeast-philly-jet-crash\/4247010\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a medical jet crashed in Northeast Philly on Jan. 31, 2025<\/a>, killing everyone on board and two people on the ground. <\/p>\n<p>One of them was her son, Stephen Druitt, and his girlfriend who were in a car on the 2300 block of Cottman Avenue with his son. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He had died pretty much instantly in the car, he never made it out,&#8221; Brown explained. &#8220;I wear Stephen&#8217;s ring around my neck and I have his ashes in this ring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When Andrew Tomasetti, <a href=\"https:\/\/paintphilly.com\/?\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/paintphilly.com\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">of Paint Philadelphia<\/a>, heard Brown&#8217;s story, he wanted to help so he offered to give her Mount Airy home a fresh coat of paint. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This just feels like something, a little bit of hope we could give her to show her and her family that we support her and that we&#8217;re here for her,&#8221; Tomasetti explained. <\/p>\n<p>Friday, Oct. 24 was the big reveal and Brown was overcome with emotion when she saw her home. <\/p>\n<p>During the event, she gave an update on her grandson, 9-year-old Ramsey, and said he is still being treated at a hospital in Boston. <\/p>\n<p>Ramsey was in the car with his dad that night and he suffered from burns over 90% of his body. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s doing pretty good,&#8221; Brown said. &#8220;They still working on him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For Ramsey&#8217;s brother, the last ten months have been difficult. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s really having a hard time. He doesn\u2019t talk much, but we\u2019re doing the best we can,&#8221; Brown said of Ramsey&#8217;s brother. <\/p>\n<p>Brown said that she is grateful, not just for the paint job, but for the people at Paint Philadelphia. <\/p>\n<p>Brown is planning a worldwide memorial balloon release to honor her son on his birthday \u2013 Dec. 23. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A gift of tender kindness is now permanently on display in Northeast Philadelphia after a local veteran-owned paint&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10915,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-14370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-jet-crash-in-philly","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}