SANFORD Fla.
First year law student Janise Joseph-Woodard was supposed to
be sitting in her criminal law class. Instead, there was an empty seat when her
class met Tuesday night. Florida A&M
University professors had to
console her classmates after a small plane plowed into her home, killing
Joseph-Woodard, 24, her 6-month-old son and three others.
“Janise balanced law school, a family and a healthy
marriage. And she did it well,” classmate Nikeisha Ford said of the mother
of two.
The twin-engine Cessna crashed into a suburban Orlando
subdivision Tuesday morning, spilling aviation fuel that ignited and gutted the
two homes it struck.
The victims included two aboard the plane: 54-year-old Dr.
Bruce Kennedy, a Daytona Beach
plastic surgeon and husband of International Speedway Corp. President Lesa
France Kennedy, and NASCAR Aviation pilot Michael Klemm, 56.
Also killed was a 4-year-old girl, Gabriela Dechat, who
lived in a home beside Joseph-Woodard. Her parents, Milagros Dechat, 33, and
Peter Dechat, 36, were seriously injured.
A 10-year-old boy who was also in that home was transported
to Cincinnati Burn
Center with burns over 80 percent to 90 percent
of his body, authorities said. His name has not been released.
