Angel Garcia moves beautifully in the videotape. She's a tall girl with a dynamite smile, an easy grace and funky style that quiets a group watching the tape in this comfortable living room. The dance is captivating. Angel is a natural.
Along with sadness for the loss of Angel, her youngest daughter — who earned a full-ride dance scholarship to Southern Utah University, who was engaged two weeks before she died, who bought her first car earlier that same November afternoon — Lujan has spent the past two months being furious.
And trying to get to the bottom of her daughter's death.
"I feel like I've had to defend my daughter through this whole thing," Lujan said. Angel's older sister, Sheryl, looks on. In an hourlong conversation, her eyes never dry.
There has been no resolution to the crash that killed Angel Garcia, no charges filed against the man witnesses said ran a red light going 45 mph, demolishing Angel's new car and killing her instantly.
Garcia was hit and killed when a pickup truck driven by Jeffrey Don Ireland, 35, ran a red light near 4000 South and 1500 West about 11 p.m. on that Saturday.
But watching Angel dance in the hip-hop performance filmed at Cyprus High School last year is a little harder for Rita Lujan than she thought it would be. It is the first time Lujan has seen a moving likeness of her daughter since the 19-year-old was killed in a brutal car crash Nov. 3; the vision makes the strong-willed woman cry.
Along with sadness for the loss of Angel, her youngest daughter — who earned a full-ride dance scholarship to Southern Utah University, who was engaged two weeks before she died, who bought her first car earlier that same November afternoon — Lujan has spent the past two months being furious.
And trying to get to the bottom of her daughter's death.
"I feel like I've had to defend my daughter through this whole thing," Lujan said. Angel's older sister, Sheryl, looks on. In an hourlong conversation, her eyes never dry.
There has been no resolution to the crash that killed Angel Garcia, no charges filed against the man witnesses said ran a red light going 45 mph, demolishing Angel's new car and killing her instantly.
Garcia was hit and killed when a pickup truck driven by Jeffrey Don Ireland, 35, ran a red light near 4000 South and 1500 West about 11 p.m. on that Saturday.
But watching Angel dance in the hip-hop performance filmed at Cyprus High School last year is a little harder for Rita Lujan than she thought it would be. It is the first time Lujan has seen a moving likeness of her daughter since the 19-year-old was killed in a brutal car crash Nov. 3; the vision makes the strong-willed woman cry.
Angel Garcia moves beautifully in the videotape. She's a tall girl with a dynamite smile, an easy grace and funky style that quiets a group watching the tape in this comfortable living room. The dance is captivating. Angel is a natural.
Along with sadness for the loss of Angel, her youngest daughter — who earned a full-ride dance scholarship to Southern Utah University, who was engaged two weeks before she died, who bought her first car earlier that same November afternoon — Lujan has spent the past two months being furious.
And trying to get to the bottom of her daughter's death.
"I feel like I've had to defend my daughter through this whole thing," Lujan said. Angel's older sister, Sheryl, looks on. In an hourlong conversation, her eyes never dry.
There has been no resolution to the crash that killed Angel Garcia, no charges filed against the man witnesses said ran a red light going 45 mph, demolishing Angel's new car and killing her instantly.
Garcia was hit and killed when a pickup truck driven by Jeffrey Don Ireland, 35, ran a red light near 4000 South and 1500 West about 11 p.m. on that Saturday.
But watching Angel dance in the hip-hop performance filmed at Cyprus High School last year is a little harder for Rita Lujan than she thought it would be. It is the first time Lujan has seen a moving likeness of her daughter since the 19-year-old was killed in a brutal car crash Nov. 3; the vision makes the strong-willed woman cry.
Along with sadness for the loss of Angel, her youngest daughter — who earned a full-ride dance scholarship to Southern Utah University, who was engaged two weeks before she died, who bought her first car earlier that same November afternoon — Lujan has spent the past two months being furious.
And trying to get to the bottom of her daughter's death.
"I feel like I've had to defend my daughter through this whole thing," Lujan said. Angel's older sister, Sheryl, looks on. In an hourlong conversation, her eyes never dry.
There has been no resolution to the crash that killed Angel Garcia, no charges filed against the man witnesses said ran a red light going 45 mph, demolishing Angel's new car and killing her instantly.
Garcia was hit and killed when a pickup truck driven by Jeffrey Don Ireland, 35, ran a red light near 4000 South and 1500 West about 11 p.m. on that Saturday.
But watching Angel dance in the hip-hop performance filmed at Cyprus High School last year is a little harder for Rita Lujan than she thought it would be. It is the first time Lujan has seen a moving likeness of her daughter since the 19-year-old was killed in a brutal car crash Nov. 3; the vision makes the strong-willed woman cry.
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