Brother Dies In Car Crash After Sister Kills Herself

He was rushing to the hospital to see her

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Two Detroit siblings died the same night this week, a sister in an apparent suicide and her brother in a car crash as he rushed to the hospital to see her.

Police say Brenda Tucker, 21, had threatened suicide while in her family’s bar on Detroit’s east side and eventually pulled the trigger on herself Sunday night, the Detroit Free Press reports.  She was rushed to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead. Her brother, Ricky Tucker, 20, was also in the bar and went to the hospital to check on his sister. But en route, his car was struck by and SUV, killing him at the scene.

“So my nephew was going to look after his sister, and he ends up getting killed, too,” the siblings’ uncle Eddie Falbo told the Detroit News. “This is a close family; this is a tough one.”

[Detroit Free Press]