The 19-year-old lady who was one of two girls murdered when their moped collided on the Cross Island Parkway lived in the moment in a race against time, her bereaved twin sister said Sunday.
Fatal victim Giselle Flores was supposed to hitch a ride home early Saturday and then meet her twin, Sharick Flores, later that day for a weekend together. But she never got home.
Instead, she was pronounced dead on the Queens highway when the 15-year-old kid with whom she was riding lost control of the two-wheeler. Giselle, who was out with the twins’ friend, called her sister an hour before the crash.
“I said, ‘What are you doing still out?'” She answered, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll find some pals to pick me up. “I’ll go home and see you at 5 a.m.,” Sharick told The Post. “And she never arrived home.
“When motorbikes arrived to bring her up, she instructed my closest friend, ‘You know what? Get on. Let’s go on a ride. “We only live once.”
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Giselle, who lived in Queens, and her companion jumped onto different mopeds. The sister stated Giselle traveled with youngster Andy Rodriguez, whom she had just met that night.
According to Sharick, Rodriguez lost control of the highway around 2 a.m. and collided with a car, causing the duo to crash into a highway wall near 150th Street.
The kid the friend was riding with let her off at the side of the road to pick up Rodriguez and hurry him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Meanwhile, a buddy called Sharick was in a panic as Giselle lay lifeless.
“‘She doesn’t move and doesn’t breathe. She’s bleeding. I’m not sure what to do. “I said, ‘Bro, call 911,’ but they had already called 911,” Sharick recalled. “I ended up going to the ER to see her, and they told me my sister had died.
“I ended up witnessing my best friend, who was covered in my sister’s blood, including her legs and shoes. She stated, “I tried to wake her up, but she did not wake up.”
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Sharick added that their mother is “so devastated” while the family raises money for burial expenses. Sharick described her sister as “more than my best friend.” After Giselle graduated from high school in November, the two hoped to attend college together.
“She was my entire universe. “My sister and I have been through a lot,” Sharick explained. “We share the same philosophy. We think alike. We truly intended to go to college to study medicine. She was going to be a nurse, whereas I was going to be an ultrasound technician.”
However, Sharick also stated that her sister “always knew this was going to happen because she had this mentality of ‘We only live once.'”
Sharick, who lives upstate, was scheduled to drive down to Queens to pick up her sister and bring her back up north so they could spend the weekend together. “She said, ‘You know what? “We’re going to go on jet skis, go shopping, and do this and that,” Sharick explained.
“I told her, ‘Relax, girl,’ and she said, ‘No, baby, we’re going to do everything because what if I die tomorrow?'” Her attitude was always, “What if we die?” “We must live for today.”
The investigation into the fatal crash continues, and no arrests have been made.