A woman died after she was struck by a firetruck in St. Louis late Saturday night, according to police. A witness told investigators that the woman had fallen from an SUV onto the roadway before she ...

The woman was identified as 18-year-old Nyla Simmons. Police said a Cadillac Escalade stopped at a red light around 11:20 p.m. Saturday. Simmons was reportedly dancing on top of the vehicle. Once the ...

“I’m highly distraught that I don’t get to see what she was going to become,” Nyla Simmons' father, Everett, said of his late daughter Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has ...

Nyla Simmons, 18, was coming home from a friend’s prom send-off party Saturday night when she started to dance on the roof of a Cadillac Escalade as it drove through the streets of St. Louis ...

Authorities identified the victim as 18-year-old Nyla Simmons. When speaking to reporters with KMOV, Simmons' parents, Everett and Letrice Simmons said their daughter was attending a friend's prom ...

As the SUV was turning, 18-year-old Nyla Simmons, “who was dancing on the roof” of the vehicle, fell off and onto the road, officials said. A few moments later, Simmons was struck by a firetruck ...