Dad mourns student, 18, killed in crush

A college freshman driving to visit home for her mother’s birthday was killed by an alleged drunk driver on Saturday in Lithonia, Channel 2 Action News reported.

Kennedy Segars, 18, was a student at Alabama State University who wanted to be an attorney, her father, Marvin Segars, told Channel 2.

“’Til the day I die, it will still be a pain,” he said. “They took my baby at 18. This is just horrible. I don’t want nobody to feel this at all.”

She was stopped at a red light near her parents’ home at the intersection of Klond- ike Road and Mall Parkway near Stonecrest Mall when a driver going more than 70 mph rear-ended her, police told the news station.

Her car flipped several times and ended up down an embankment, Channel 2 reported.

The driver of the car that hit her, 52-year-old Reginald Stubbs, survived the crash. Kennedy Segars was pronounced dead Monday at a local hospital because of brain injuries, the news station reported.

“I question that all the time,” her father said. “Why’d you have to take her?”

Stubbs faces four charges, including first-degree vehicular homicide, DUI, serious injury by vehicle and following too closely, jail records show. Segars told Channel 2 he hopes Stubbs spends the rest of his life in prison.

“We want him to stay behind bars forever,” he said. “He took a life, so his freedom should be taken as well.”

Stubbs remains in the DeKalb County Jail without bond, according to jail records.

Reginald Stubbs is charged with DUI, vehicular homicide.