Who Is Mariah Michelle Logan? Heartbreaking New Details About The Woman Who Fell Out A Car Window During Spring Break
She was then run over by a Range Rover.
Facebook A woman died in Miami on her way to the airport after she fell out of a car window and was ran over by another car.
Mariah Michelle Logan was only trying to soak up the final minutes of the Florida sun and her spring break vacation when tragedy struck. The 23-year-old who had been visiting from Chicago with a group of her friends, rolled down the right rear passenger window. She started yelling "Bye Miami!" while "hanging out" of the window when she fell.
Those were her final words.
So who is Mariah Michelle Logan? Here's everything you need to know about the woman at the center of this awful and heartbreaking tragedy.
1. She and her friends were driving to the airport.
When the report reads that she was enjoying the final moments of her vacation, it really means it. Logan and three of her friends were on their way to the Miami International Airport when she tragically died.
During her spring break vacation, Logan went swimming in the ocean and spent the night clubbing in South Beach. She and her friends were only in Miami for three days.
The incident occurred around 5 a.m. on Sunday, March 17. Their rented Hyundai was driving west on the Airport Expressway. They were only minutes away from the airport when she was hanging out of the window, she somehow lost her balance and fell onto the busy freeway. She was run over by a Range Rover.
2. The driver sped off.
Immediately after Logan was hit by the Range Rover, the driver stopped, feeling the impact. Unfortunately, he quickly drove off and left no information. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the driver ran over her once after she fell onto the road.
Police have not yet said if they've identified him or if they are actively seeking him out.
3. Her death is being investigated as a traffic homicide.
This tragedy is currently being investigated by police as a traffic homicide. They have not yet confirmed or denied if alcohol played any part in Logan's death.
While the FHP has talked to witnesses, they don't think the cops will get any help from the surveillance cameras that are along the highway. They only stream information in real time and do not record them.
“It’s going to be hard for investigators,” said FHP spokesman Alejandro Camacho. They “only livestream. It’s too much data to record.”
Details about what the witnesses saw "won't be available for at least 90 days," according to Camacho.
4. Her loved ones are heartbroken by her death.
Logan's friends and family were shocked and heartbroken by the news of her passing. Not only are they upset because they lost someone they loved, but they're still in shock and disbelief that it happened.
The three friends who were in the car with Logan have been identified as Trina Frazier, 24; Aaliyah Frazier, 23 and Kenyatta Burch, 23.
“I’m still grieving,” Logan’s friend Kenyatta Burch told Miami Herald. “I lost my best friend, my sister. Blood cannot make us closer.”
“The way it happened, it’s not easy to accept a person going out like that. She was an angel,” Logan’s sister, Xylina Griffin, told ABC 7 Chicago. Griffin said that their family just wants Logan's body back home to Chicago, which is expensive.
“As if dealing with this loss and heartbreak, now we have to figure out how to send her home. It’s expensive. It’s a nightmare,” Burch said.
5. She worked as a mental health technician.
Logan's boyfriend, Ray Olden, said she worked as a mental health technician at the Ann Kiley Residential Center in Waukegan.
“She was just being silly. She loved life,” Olden said of his girlfriend's final words.
Though they had only been dating for a short year, they were already planning to spend the next five years of their lives together. They had another trip planned, a cruise, for August.
He's obviously devastated by her death.
“It’s not real yet,” he said. “There’s just silence in the air.”
Olden said her friends called him "the moment it happened."
"[They were] saying that my baby was gone, fell out the window and was hit by a car. I started screaming and they were crying and said they had to call her sisters and that they were so sorry.”
“She brought energy and life. She never looked at the bad. I was told I was a special man and she made me believe it,” Olden said. “We had the next five years mapped out.”
Emily Blackwood is a writer and editor living in California. She covers all things news, pop culture, and true crime.
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