Prayers can be hard to hear over the sounds coming from Southeast Military Drive, but to the family and friends of Jeanette Espitia, that didn’t matter Tuesday night.

They held a vigil to remember the San Antonio mom who died last Thursday. She was hit and killed while trying to cross the street. Now, her family is calling on the city to increase pedestrian safety measures in the wake of her death.

“I don’t want her to be just another person who died on the road,” Jesse Espitia, her brother, said. “I want to keep her memory alive and fight for her.”

Around 10:30 p.m. last Thursday, Jeanette had just gotten off the bus with her 1-year-old daughter. She had made a quick stop at Walmart to pick up diapers. She tried crossing Southeast Military Drive near Old Corpus Christi Highway when she

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