NEWBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — A relative of the 10-year-old boy who escaped from a window of a sinking minivan that his mother drove into New York’s Hudson River is “doing good.” The mother and three other children died.
Angela Gilliam says Lashaun Armstrong is “taking it all in” the day after his mother, Lashanda Armstrong, drove the minivan into the river off a boat ramp in the city of Newburgh about 8 p.m.
Gilliam, Lashanda Armstrong’s aunt, says she spoke to her niece earlier Tuesday and she was “not too good.” Gilliam later called police in Newburgh about her niece’s well-being. Police acknowledge they got a call about a domestic incident but provided no details.
By the time police got there, Armstrong had already taken the fatal plunge with her children, ages 5, 2 and 11 months.
