Of Course There Is More To Lisa Lopes Dying...Duh!
Will Yablowme
BY ANA MARIA VALDES and LUISA YANEZ
The Miami Herald
AP / File
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes.
Lisa ''Left Eye'' Lopes, a hip-hop singer with the group TLC who died last week
in a car crash in Honduras, was involved in another accident almost three weeks
ago in which a 10-year-old boy was run over and killed, according to the
Honduran newspaper La Prensa.
Lopes, 30, was killed instantly Thursday night near Jutiapa, about 10 miles
west of La Ceiba, on Honduras' northern Atlantic coast, when the rented
Mitsubishi SUV she was driving rolled over.
Her body was returned to her hometown of Atlanta on Sunday.
In the crash on April 6, Lopes was a passenger in a Mitsubishi driven by her
assistant, identified as Stefani, according a story in La Prensa's Sunday
edition. The vehicle ran over the boy between 8:45 and 9 p.m. along the highway
to La Ceiba, where Lopes and her friends were staying.
The child, Bayron Isaul Fuentes López, was on his way to visit relatives with
his uncle Miguel Angel Rivera. He was rushed to the Suyapa Clinic in San Pedro
Sula. Because of his severe injuries, he was transferred to a larger clinic,
where he died.
Rivera said he and other relatives remembered seeing Lopes at the first clinic
and later recognized her from photographs in newspaper after her fatal crash.
He said he recognized the tattoos on her arm and an earing in her left eyebrow,
the newspaper reported.
He also said the occupants of the car identified her after the accident and
that's when he first heard the name ''Lisa Lopes.'' He even wrote down the name
down and a description of what had happened that evening in his agenda book,
the newspaper said.
The boy's family did not press charges, saying that both Lopes and Stefani went
to the first clinic with the boy at the hospital and kept in touch afterward.
They also paid all medical and funeral expenses.
The paper also said the family did not contact police about the incident. Lopes
initially wanted to visit the family after the boy died, but she was advised
not to because police might learn of the situation.
In a conversation after the accident, both Lopes and Stefani told Rivera that
they were on their way to the Ramón Villeda Morales airport to pick up some
friends and then head to the city of San Pedro Sula, the uncle told the
newspaper.
The vehicles in the two accidents were described as Mitsubishis. But its was
unclear Sunday if the same vehicle was involved in both crashes. The story also
said that on Thursday -- the day Lopes died -- she and seven friends were in a
Mitsubishi Montero on their way back to La Ceiba from a visit with a local
naturalist.
Lopes frequently visited Honduras and sought a rejuvenating treatment at Villa
Usha before beginning a big project.
She was the only one killed. Honduran police said a truck may have veered into
her lane, causing the SUV to flip over several times after she made an evasive
move, La Ceiba police said. Lopes may have been speeding.
The newspaper reported that the group had just left Villa Usha in Salitrán,
about four kilometers from the accident site. Employees at the center told the
paper Lopes and 14 others had been receiving treatment there.
The rapper had reportedly been visiting the center since 1997, after a fellow
TLC member recommended Villa Usha to her.
This report was supplemented by material from The Associated Press.
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A bit of revenge or pay off??? I will let you all decide on this one.
"I wasn't walking on water, I was standing on a reef when the tide came in
Swept beneath surface, lost without a trace, no hope at all
Oh, sweet miracle, love, sweet miracle of life."-Rush-Sweet Miracle
Carolyn
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