Two Pond Car Crash Victims, Ages 1 and 5, 'Respond to Verbal Commands'

Two of the children rescued from a St. Louis Park holding pond after spending at least 25 minutes underwater are now responsive, the family’s attorney, Rick Petry, said Friday afternoon.

One-year-old Aliyana E. Rennie and 5-year-old Amani N. Coleman-Guerrido, are responsive, though still in critical condition.

“They respond to verbal commands,” Petry said in a press conference in the lobby of the St. Louis Park police department.

Zarihana M. Rennie, 6, is still in “very, very critical condition,” Petry said. The other two children, Zenavia C. Rennie, 5, and Alarious Coleman-Guerrido, 7, died on Thursday.

“Words cannot express our grief at the loss of our children,” the children’s family wrote in a statement read by Petry. “As you can only imagine this is our worst nightmare—we cannot even think about life without them and we already miss them very much.”

The Coleman-Guerrido Rennie family had raised more than $2,000 by Friday afternoon to pay for funeral expenses and medical costs through a Give Forward page.

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Two Children Dead, Three Hospitalized After Car Crashes into St. Louis Park Pond