The parents of a Brooklyn girl killed by an alleged hit-and-run driver said Monday their little girl would be dressed in her favorite colors at her funeral.
Rebecca Ramnarine, 9, will be wearing a white dress with a splash of purple when she’s laid to rest following the deadly crash on Sunday.
“I put it [funeral arrangements] in the hand of my family members. I can’t,” said grieving mom Abiola Ramnarine, 38. “The only thing I did was pick out her dress. White. Her favorite color was purple so I’m going to find a purple sash to wrap around her.”
Rebecca was leaving church in a family friend’s car when it was struck — at Remsen Avenue and Avenue N in Canarsie — by a minivan fleeing the scene of a hit-and-run, authorities said.
Kenneth Palache, 62 of Huntington, LI, was arrested and booked on suspicion of criminally negligent homicide, leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, failure to show a license and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.
Rebecca could have been riding with her parents after church services on Sunday, but she wanted to be with a friend.
“We were all going together, but in separate cars. She wanted to ride with her friend and I said, ‘OK,’ ”
Abiola Ramnarine said.
“As a parent, now I’m wondering, ‘Should I have sent my kids in someone else’s car?’ But the truth is, she could have been in my car and it could have been the same thing.”