A woman named Samantha Jensen shared her heartbreak over the tragic passing of her three-year-old daughter nearly three years ago and the final photo her mother had taken of the little girl just moments before she lost her life.
Samantha explained that seeing the last photo of her daughter Scarlett alive—knowing what happened just moments later—has been heartbreaking.
According to the grieving mother, it was October 7, 2022, when she and her husband went to a wedding, leaving their children, Scarlett and her younger brother, with their grandmother, Jamie.
“That afternoon they went to get ice cream and enjoy a walk together,” Samantha told People. “When they arrived home to our back driveway, Scarlett wanted to get out of the stroller to pick flowers. That’s when my mom took the last picture I have of her alive.”
Mere seconds after that photo was taken, Jamie and the kids, who were walking in the family’s private driveway in Oldtown, Idaho, were ran over by a Chevy Tahoe that came racing down the road.
“My mother was waving her hands, screaming for him to stop and she tried to grab my children to move them out of the way but he was going too fast,” Samantha recalled.
“Scarlett was killed almost instantly and my mom and Henry were critically injured.”
The suspect fled the scene on foot and was apprehended a few miles away, currently serving 10-year-prison sentence.
“Henry was life-flighted to the children’s hospital where they found a fractured spine, six broken ribs, a broken jaw, a broken collarbone, a liver laceration and several other injuries,” Samantha shared with People.
“My mom had several broken bones but was able to be released from the hospital.”
She added, “Henry spent a week in the PICU before he was stable enough to come home, and he had a full body brace on for 10 weeks.”
Samantha only discovered the final photo of her daughter alive weeks after the little girl was tragically killed.
“My mom lost her phone when they were hit and it took us a while to find it, so when we finally did I was going through pictures and found that one,” she recalled. “I looked at the timestamp and realized it was only five minutes before her declared time of death, so it must have been taken seconds before the person hit them.”
At first, Samantha found it hard to face the final photo of her daughter. Now, nearly three years later, she views it as a symbol of the beautiful life her little girl lived.
“I am so incredibly thankful to have that photo,” she told People. “It captures the peaceful feeling of her last moments, the beauty she was surrounded by when she took her last breaths. I will forever picture her happy and carefree, picking flowers with her best friend and Meemaw.”
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