By: Aldo Santin Winnipeg Free Press
BLACK RIVER – This small, aboriginal community is in mourning this afternoon as it comes to grips with the tragic deaths last night of two young people. Trisha Jones, 18, and her cousin Tiffany Abraham, 19, died from injuries they received when the small car they were riding in collided with a van – stolen hours earlier from downtown Winnipeg.
Tiffany and her mother Merel Abraham had driven to Winnipeg earlier in the day to pick up Trisha, a first year student at the University of Winnipeg.
"It's difficult to comprehend because they are so young and they had so much potential," Chief Sheldon Kent said as he talked to the media that had come to the community 39 kilometres north of Pine Falls. Kent said the two young women were considered young leaders and role models for other youths in the community.
Merel Abraham received minor injuries in the crash and is recuperating at home in Black River. She did not speak to media today.
Abraham's mother was driving a Neon travelling north when it was struck by a westbound Plymouth Voyageur around 8 p.m. The woman was rushed to Selkirk hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The van, with three people inside, had been reported stolen on Tuesday night in Winnipeg.
The collision occurred at the intersection of Hwy. 59 and Stead Road. A 27-year-old man from Scanterbury was arrested and is in custody. The other occupants of the van -- a 24-year-old man from Scanterbury, and a 29-year-old woman from Winnipeg -- were taken to the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg with non-life threatening injuries.
RCMP said alcohol is believed to be a factor and the investigation is ongoing.
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