By Alicia Cruz
The Black Urban Times
With her MySpace mood set as "confident," Shatonia Spencer wrote "NOTHING THAT'S MEANT FOR ME IS GONNA GET ME. AND NOTHING THAT AIN'T MEANT FOR ME IS GONNA HIT ME."
"Shatonia was always impulsive and never thought things through," her mother, Vanessa Spencer, 41, told The New York Post after learning of her daughter's death.
" I will miss everything about her, her spirit and everything," added Vanessa Spencer.
Spencer, of Brooklyn was struck and killed by the Manhattan-bound Q train around 5 a.m. at the Prospect Park subway station as she jumped down from the platform onto the train tracks in an effort to cross over to the other side of the station and catch the train.
A token booth clerk said she told Spencer where she could catch the train to Manhattan after the 23-year-old woman asked for directions. Apparently, Spencer went down the wrong stairs and when she heard the train approaching, she jumped into the tracks, trying to cross over to the opposite side when she was stuck.
Spencer's mother told the Post that her daughter had left her 18-year-old sister, Sheritas home in Coney Island heading back to her apartment on Halsey Street around 3 a.m. when the tragic accident took place.
Spencer, whose MySpace page listed both the Borough Academy-Brooklyn and Thomas Jefferson High School as institutions she graduated from, worked for the Parks Department.
In an eerie coincidence, Spencer's best friend,Tatiana Cobb, was also killed by a subway train last April.
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"Shatonia was always impulsive and never thought things through," her mother, Vanessa Spencer, 41, told The New York Post after learning of her daughter's death.
" I will miss everything about her, her spirit and everything," added Vanessa Spencer.
Spencer, of Brooklyn was struck and killed by the Manhattan-bound Q train around 5 a.m. at the Prospect Park subway station as she jumped down from the platform onto the train tracks in an effort to cross over to the other side of the station and catch the train.
A token booth clerk said she told Spencer where she could catch the train to Manhattan after the 23-year-old woman asked for directions. Apparently, Spencer went down the wrong stairs and when she heard the train approaching, she jumped into the tracks, trying to cross over to the opposite side when she was stuck.
Spencer's mother told the Post that her daughter had left her 18-year-old sister, Sheritas home in Coney Island heading back to her apartment on Halsey Street around 3 a.m. when the tragic accident took place.
Spencer, whose MySpace page listed both the Borough Academy-Brooklyn and Thomas Jefferson High School as institutions she graduated from, worked for the Parks Department.
In an eerie coincidence, Spencer's best friend,Tatiana Cobb, was also killed by a subway train last April.
Media Outlets must credit
The Black Urban Times
www.theblackurbantimes.com
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