Road safety measures urged at Mote memorial
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Erin Sechrest displays a tattoo of her late son, Joshua, while standing near a banner made in his memory at the crash site where she lost the then-18-year-old. The tattoo was paid for by Sechrest's best friend.
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Keona Artis, 19, places a card for her boyfriend Joshua Mote, 18, at the site of the crash. She said she passes the crash site daily and still talks to Joshua.
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North Port firefighters and paramedics joined friends and family of Joshua Mote to mark what would have been his 19th birthday on Friday. Josh died following a crash on the corner of Price Boulevard and Yorkshire Street with a man who admitted to police he had been drinking while mudding in the backwoods of North Port.
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Malaina Mote, 21, left, holds her 3-month-old son, Jaivason, during the memorial birthday service for her brother Josh. With her is her brother Krishna, 20, who was in the crash that killed Josh, along with his mother Erin Sechrest, holding Krishna's son, also named Krishna.
SUN PHOTO BY ELAINE ALLEN-EMRICH, eallen@sun-herald.com
Erin Sechrest displays a tattoo of her late son, Joshua, while standing near a banner made in his memory at the crash site where she lost the then-18-year-old. The tattoo was paid for by Sechrest's best friend.
SUN PHOTO BY ELAINE ALLEN-EMRICH, eallen@sun-herald.com
Keona Artis, 19, places a card for her boyfriend, the late Josh Mote, at the site of the wreck that took his life in February. She said she passes the crash site daily and still talks to Josh.
SUN PHOTO BY ELAINE ALLEN-EMRICH, eallen@sun-herald.com
North Port Firefighters and paramedics joined friends and family of Joshua Mote to remember what would have been his 19th birthday on Friday. Joshua died after being in a crash on the corner of Price Boulevard and Yorkshire Street by a man who admitted to police he had been drinking while mudding in the back woods of North Port.
SUN PHOTO BY ELAINE ALLEN-EMRICH, eallen@sun-herald.com
Erin Sechrest shows her tattoo of her son Joshua while standing near a banner made in his memory at the crash site that killed 18-year-old son. The tattoo was paid for by Sechrest's best friend.
NORTH PORT — A truck towing a custom mudding Jeep slowly turned right onto Yorkshire Street as its owner glanced at a group on the adjacent property holding candles around a cross, balloons and banner with the words “Justice for Joshua.”
A few minutes later, another pickup with a muddy ATV in the back drove out of a wooded area as friends and family prayed that Josh Mote is in a better place. Another vehicle, a local cabinetry van towing an ATV, also passed Josh’s memorial birthday celebration Friday evening at the site of the wreck that took his life in February. He would have been 19.
