SKYWAY, Wash. — A King County family is mourning the loss of 18-year-old Karma Cummins after she was found unresponsive at a Skyway apartment complex.
Deputies discovered Cummins, along with her 16-year-old sister and a 14-year-old boy, inside the Creston Point Apartments on April 2nd.
Sadly, Cummins died at the scene.
If you’d like to help the family with funeral expenses for Cummins, click here for the GoFundMe.
The 16-year-old and 14-year-old victims were taken to the hospital in critical condition. The 16-year-old girl has since been released.
“They’re my first cousins, but they were like my sisters, my daughters,” said their cousin, Leajanique Pitre.
Pitre told KIRO 7 she grew up close to Cummins and her younger sister. She says Cummins was just a month away from turning 19. She’s described as a loving mother to her two-year-old daughter.
“I’m just really heartbroken for her because I know that she’s gonna grow without her mom. So, and that’s just really hard,” Pitre added.
She says Cummins would light up every room she’d walk into.
“Her overall brightness, I mean, there’s nothing I’d do, there’s no store I’d go to without her, because she was really with me a lot. So I’m gonna miss everything about her. Everything. There’s just nothing I can’t miss. There was nothing bad about her,” said Pitre.
KIRO 7 spoke with the family of the 14-year-old victim, Bunja Hackett, who is still recovering in the hospital.
“He’s a very sweet boy. Um, he loves basketball, football, he goes to school, gets good grades, and, you know, I think it was just the wrong place, wrong time,” said Charolette Bell, Bunja’s aunt.
Bunja’s family told KIRO 7 they believe fentanyl laced cocaine is what caused all this.
“He don’t know everything that happened. He don’t even remember. My baby, don’t even, my baby don’t have no memory,” said his mother, Iesha Hackett.
You can find Bunja’s GoFundMe here.
Both families are still hurting from the impacts of overdose, but they want people to know drugs do not define these teens.
“This could have been anybody, you know, and... and it doesn’t matter where you come from or, or how you’re raised. You could be the poorest or you could be the richest, but your child still might go out and do something that you just don’t want them to do,” Pitre explained.
She’s urging parents to talk to their kids about the dangers of drugs.
" A lot of kids will find it, whether you teach them it or not. It’s just about what you can also teach your kids, too, or having guidance, or mentors, or just little things like that,” Pitre explained.
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