On March 8, 2024 two students at South Meck High School identified as Kaia Hodge and Jada Cousins were killed in a collision with an 18-wheeler truck in Charlotte, NC.
At 7 a.m. Jada and Kaia were in a vehicle when it collided with an 18-wheeler truck at an intersection on Tyvola Road. The crash was just 12 minutes away from South Meck High School.
The truck driver was also injured and taken to the hospital. Kaia and Jada were both seniors at the school. The girls also worked at Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
Kaia’s dad is a sargeant at Greenhaven Correctional Facility, which is a maximum security prison in New York. Many teenagers have been killed in Charlotte.
TEENAGERS KILLED
Another South Mecklenburg High School student was killed in a lake drowning
A south Charlotte high school student was killed after he shot himself in the head via suicide
A North Meck High School student was killed in a 3 car pileup crash
A student alumni killed himself on the roof of East Meck High School
15-year-old high school student Allisson Manrique Mejia was killed in a crash
A South Meck High School student was murdered, the victim was just 17
