TOLEDO, Ohio , A Toledo mother shared her devastation Friday after losing all four of her young children and their grandmother to carbon monoxide poisoning.
Adriana Coleman said she made the heartbreaking decision Friday to take her 4-year-old son off life support. She is now grieving her four children , Liberty, Storm, Legacy and Stone , and their grandmother, 36-year-old Candace McAllister.
“She had a great personality. She was definitely the life of the party,” Coleman said.
The incident happened Wednesday in the 300-block of Phillips Avenue, near Detroit, according to investigators.
Investigators said the family sat inside a vehicle, waiting for help with a flat tire when carbon monoxide filled the car. Toledo’s fire chief said the children’s father called 911 after arriving to help and finding them unresponsive.
“Pray for his sanity a lot more than anything else cause my husband is definitely going through it,” Coleman said.
Coleman said investigators told her the carbon monoxide level inside the car was extreme.
“When they put their meter in the car to test the carbon monoxide level in there, the level was five times the lethal limit,” Coleman said.
She made the decision to take Legacy, also known as Ace, off life support.
“I’m going to miss them yelling, and screaming, and laughing. There wasn’t a day that I was not without my kids. Never,” she said.
Now a mother who said she lived for her four children is trying to find strength.
“Everything I did was for about with my kids. I don’t- it seems so surreal now because life has stopped for me right now cause I’m here but I have no idea what’s going to happen after I walk out these hospital doors… I just want my babies,” Coleman said.
The family had no life insurance. An account has been set up to help cover funeral expenses. Donations can be made to the Coleman-McAllister Fund at any Fifth Third Bank location.