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Driver flees after crash that kills star basketball player
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jul 20, 2009
A former Roosevelt High School basketball star died yesterday after she was ejected from the back of a pickup truck in a crash on Moanalua Freeway.
Family members identified her as Alexis "Tati" Beasley, 21, of Punchbowl.
Police are looking for the driver who left the scene on foot, leaving Beasley to die.
Police said the driver lost control at about 1:45 a.m. in the Ewa-bound lanes and crashed into the right concrete barrier before the Ola Lane overpass.
Beasley's father, Ikaika Beasley, said he hopes the driver will turn himself in.
"As a father, I don't hold anything against that person," he said. "I believe the only way for that person to have peace with themselves is to come forward."
Tati Beasley found success through basketball despite a difficult childhood.
In her teen years, she reunited with her father, who said she told him she loved him on Friday.
Her mother is in prison, but she maintained a relationship, visiting her days before the crash.
Beasley was an all-star basketball player at Roosevelt, helping her team win the Division II championships in 2004 and reach the state championships in 2006.
Despite her obstacles, she inspired other players.
"Basketball saved my life," she told the Star-Bulletin in 2006.
Beasley graduated in 2006 and won a basketball scholarship to Hutchinson Community College in Kansas. She returned home about a year ago and worked at an auto body shop, friends said.
Friends and family members set up a memorial near the crash scene yesterday with flowers and a banner with her jersey number, 11.
Some friends stood beneath a shower tree, wondering who was driving the truck that belonged to Beasley's friend and why she was heading Ewa-bound when she and her friends live in town.
"I have no idea why she would want to go that way," said Kelsey Maikui.
Said Richelle Eusebio, 18, whose graduation party Beasley attended Saturday night, "She was like an older sister to me."
A former Roosevelt High School basketball star died yesterday after she was ejected from the back of a pickup truck in a crash on Moanalua Freeway.
Family members identified her as Alexis "Tati" Beasley, 21, of Punchbowl.
Police are looking for the driver who left the scene on foot, leaving Beasley to die.
Police said the driver lost control at about 1:45 a.m. in the Ewa-bound lanes and crashed into the right concrete barrier before the Ola Lane overpass.
Beasley's father, Ikaika Beasley, said he hopes the driver will turn himself in.
"As a father, I don't hold anything against that person," he said. "I believe the only way for that person to have peace with themselves is to come forward."
Tati Beasley found success through basketball despite a difficult childhood.
In her teen years, she reunited with her father, who said she told him she loved him on Friday.
Her mother is in prison, but she maintained a relationship, visiting her days before the crash.
Beasley was an all-star basketball player at Roosevelt, helping her team win the Division II championships in 2004 and reach the state championships in 2006.
Despite her obstacles, she inspired other players.
"Basketball saved my life," she told the Star-Bulletin in 2006.
Beasley graduated in 2006 and won a basketball scholarship to Hutchinson Community College in Kansas. She returned home about a year ago and worked at an auto body shop, friends said.
Friends and family members set up a memorial near the crash scene yesterday with flowers and a banner with her jersey number, 11.
Some friends stood beneath a shower tree, wondering who was driving the truck that belonged to Beasley's friend and why she was heading Ewa-bound when she and her friends live in town.
"I have no idea why she would want to go that way," said Kelsey Maikui.
Said Richelle Eusebio, 18, whose graduation party Beasley attended Saturday night, "She was like an older sister to me."
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