TAMPA - After a fatal accident involving a seven-year-old and a pickup truck, a mother is left heartbroken.

The backstory:

The moments after Jessica Williams picked up her phone Sunday night are a blur, and likely always will be. "I (was) confused. I'm like, my baby?"

Jalaysia Capers, her cousin and two other children had been eager to get a drink from a store to go with dinner. They left the apartment they shared just before 8 p.m.

"I was like, okay, you can go ahead and go," Williams said. "Everybody went. I said, y'all guys be careful. Make it to the store and come back. They never made it to store."

Dig deeper:

FHP says three of the children were hit by a passing pickup truck. An 11-year-old and an 8-year-old recovered from their injuries. But Jalaysia, who her family called, "

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