Monica Henk

Monica Henk was on her way to music school at 7 AM on a Saturday

morning in Bedford/Stuyvesant Brooklyn. A Black 95-97 Chevy S-10 Blazer

Plowed into her at the intersection of Flushing and Kent. It hit her so hard

it threw her off the bike, snapped her neck, broke her left arm and

right ankle, and stopped her heart.

It lost a bumper and headlight in the process, but kept driving.

Paramedics revived her, but she had been without oxygen to the brain

for almost 30 minutes. They say if they knew that at the scene they

wouldn't have revived her heart. She had 90% trauma to the brain, was

probably paralyzed from the neck down, and in a severe coma. She didn't even

response to basic stimuli that most coma victims respond to like the

gag reflex.

Her body lived a few days on machines, but she was essentially brain

dead. On Thursday at 12:40 PM the machines were turned off and she passed

at 12:50.

The funeral is this Sunday the 22nd at Leo Kearns Funeral Home in Regal

Park, NY. 718 441 3300