Friends, Loved Ones of Crash Victims Return to Makeshift Memorial
A simple wooden cross, flowers and balloons mark the spot where the car in which Frederick Alexander and Alesha Roehl rolled off of Buckhill Road toward I-35 Tuesday afternoon.
Friends and loved ones of Frederick Alexander and Alesha Roehl returned Wednesday to the spot where the two teenagers lost their lives the previous day. A makeshift memorial marks the place where the car in which Alexander, 16, and Roehl, 17, were riding in careened off Buck Hill Road toward its landing spot on Interstate 35 just north of the Burnsville-Lakeville border Tuesday afternoon. Alexander and Roehl, who weren’t wearing seatbelts, were thrown from the car. Alexander, of Burnsville, died at the scene of the 2:30 p.m. crash. Roehl, of Northfield, died a few hours later at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. A few pieces of the Toyota Camry’s trim—including a rearview mirror and a chuck of a rear tail light cover—were …
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