SAD OUTCOME: Jason Miller is treated yesterday after he tried to save his neighbors, including Moriah Brough and her sons Jayden and Kendall. (John Miller)
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CHARLOTTE, NC — A North Carolina family says three children were ripped from their beds by a tornado, throwing one about 100 feet away along a fence lining a highway. All have been released from hospitals and are back with relatives.
Latonya Stevens says her 7-year-old son Jamal was sucked from his room as a tornado tore apart the family home’s second floor where he slept. It was one of nearly 200 homes damaged by the storm in the Charlotte area.
A neighbor found Jamal about 100 feet away, tossed to the far side of a fence along Interstate 485.
His 3-year-old sister Amber and 4-year-old Ayanna were released from a hospital on Sunday. Amber was found in her home’s yard under some debris. Ayanna landed in a neighbor’s yard.
Meanwhile, the miracle tot rescued from an Indiana field after a deadly twister ripped through her home has died.
The grandparents of little Angel Babcock made the heart-wrenching decision to take her off life support yesterday after it became clear she couldn’t recover from her severe brain injuries.
“They didn’t want her to suffer more,” a family friend told The Post late yesterday afternoon, shortly before officials at Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville confirmed the sad news.
“R I P baby Angel, you are gone but never forgotten,” Angel’s aunt, Kendra Brough, posted on Facebook. “I guess it was God’s will to have you be peaceful and not in pain with your family. I miss you all so much, one day we will all reunite.”
The death of the 15-month-old was a devastating ending to a story of hope that captivated the nation in the aftermath of the twisters that claimed the lives of dozens in the Midwest.
Angel’s mom, Moriah Brough, her dad, Joe Babcock, and siblings Jaydon and Kendall, were all killed immediately by the tornado that tore through their mobile home in New Pekin, Ind.
Neighbor Jason Miller had desperately tried to save them, but was himself tossed out into a field by the merciless storm.
Angel had been on life support, with family and friends keeping vigil, since being rescued from a field near the family’s home.
“Angel has been reunited with her parents,” grandfather Jack Brough said in a statement. “We want to thank God for all of you and your thoughts and prayers.”
The tornadoes that ripped across the Midwest and South on Friday have killed 36 people in five states.
As Angel’s family grieved, Miller was recovering from surgery at another hospital just blocks away.
He had run over to get Angel’s family, because his trailer was sturdier, and helped Brough and Babcock carry their kids inside, Fannie said.
The twister destroyed both the homes.
“It looked like someone had run the house through a chipper and blown it out in the woods,” Miller’s brother, Johnny said.
With AP