"I'm sure that many of you question why Deona was there that night," Carter said. Kraus has since been charged with second-degree murder. On June 13, she was decrying Smith's killing by law enforcement when Nicholas Kraus accelerated and rammed into her vehicle adorned with a lime green Black Lives Matter bumper sticker, striking and killing her. Sobriety gave Knajdek the ability to selflessly lend her life to others. The packed chapel filled with grief and moments of levity over stories of Knajdek and her sarcastic sense of humor that helped carry her through a struggle with addiction.īut her family takes solace in knowing the 31-year-old died sober, days away from her 32nd birthday and anniversary of recovering from drugs and alcohol. "Here was my older sister, calmly, yet passionately, telling the world who Deona was, what Deona stood for and how Deona should be remembered," he said.Ĭarter and other loved ones of Knajdek's delivered heartfelt eulogies at her funeral service in Rush City on Monday afternoon, one week after she was fatally run down while protesting the death of Winston Boogie Smith Jr. But then he recognized someone in the crowd. and professor of aerospace studies at the University of Minnesota acknowledged that he likely stood out among the Black Lives Matter protesters. He mustered the strength to go to the scene of where her life was taken. – Hours after his niece Deona Marie Knajdek was killed, Jonathan Carter went on his routine bicycle ride to work through Uptown.
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