College fund started for daughters of mom killed

Nearly $15,000 has been raised since fundraiser launched on Friday.

A GoFundMe page has been launched for the children in memory of Julieanna Shedrawy, who died last week after a tire from a pickup truck landed on her car on Ga. 400.

The page is set up as a college fund for Shedrawy’s two daughters, Madison and Mikayla.

It launched on Friday with a goal of raising $50,000. By Monday afternoon, it had reached nearly $15,000.

The woman who started the page is Niki Daniels Oginz of Alpharetta. She writes on the page that Shedrawy’s daughters were “her life.”

One donor, Peggy Davidson, wrote that Shedrawy “brought light to all of our lives even during a down day.”

Shedrawy, 48, was married and lived in Alpharetta. She worked as a sales coordinator at Atlanta Fixture & Sales Co. Inc., a business near the DeKalb-Peachtree Airport.

The incident on Ga. 400 occurred just before 8 a.m. on Thursday, when a truck traveling north on the highway at Pitts Road lost a wheel and tire.

The wheel went over the road’s dividing wall to the other side of the highway and landed on the windshield of Shedrawy’s Nissan, police said.

Police and investigators believe the wheel came off due to a mechanical issue. The driver of the truck, Jorge Herrera, stayed on the scene for hours after the incident.

Herrara said he did not have any issues with the truck before Thursday.

“I drove this truck to North Carolina on Saturday,” he said. “I don’t have weight. I don’t have equipment.”

Darrell Thompson, one of Shedrawy’s neighbors, told Channel 2 Action News that the community will support her husband and daughters. The oldest girl is 17. The youngest is 10.

“You wish that there was some way to reverse it,” Thompson said.

“She’s touched everybody’s life,” Shedrawy’s father, Cronis Alexsinas, told the AJC. “And they never forgot her.”

Alexsinas said he’s comforted knowing his daughter was the type of woman who would go out of her way to help others, as was the case when a friend committed suicide two years ago.

Shedrawy was “always pulling for the kids,” and would even surprise them for lunch, he said.

Funeral services for Shedrawy are set for Thursday in Alpharetta.

FACEBOOK PHOTO Julieanna Shedrawy died last week after a tire from a pickup truck landed on her car on Ga. 400. Shedrawy, 48, was married and lived in Alpharetta. She worked as a sales coordinator at Atlanta Fixture & Sales Co. Inc.