The City of Philadelphia is planning to celebrate 8-year-old Jayanna Powell, who was tragically killed in a 2016 hit-and-run by renaming the street where she was killed in her honor.

On Saturday, local officials will gather with the family of Powell for the renaming ceremony, which is when Lansdowne Avenue will also become known as "Jayanna Powell Way".

"It's going to feel like I gave birth to her again," Ayeshia Poole, Jayanna's mother, said. "That's how I'm going to feel because now she's here and she's not going anywhere."

On Nov. 18, 2016, Powell was killed in a hit-and-run in West Philadelphia at the intersection of 63rd Street and Lansdowne Avenue while she and her brother were walking home from school.

Since then, Poole has made it her mission to keep her daughter's memory alive

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