She had the sweetest little laugh, little dimples and she just endured so much in her six years,' Namjah Nash Williams, her mother, said. 'She was the sweetest kid you'll ever meet. The girl was born with a rare chromosome disorder known as Emanuel syndrome, which made her unable to speak or walk. Do you understand the image that we got in our head of our daughter the last time that we seen her? What we had to go through?' her father, Wali Williams, said Thursday.

'She didn't have oxygen in her brain for almost 40 minutes. But as the bus was on its route, a series of bumps in the road caused the girl to slump in her wheelchair - causing the four-point harness which secured her to the chair to become tight around her neck, preventing her from breathing, the county prosecutor said.

at her home, the wheelchair she utilized was secured in the back of the vehicle by the school bus monitor, 27-year-old Amanda Davila. Sign up for NBC New York newsletters.Īfter the girl, identified as Fajr Atiya Williams, boarded the bus around 9 a.m. Get Tri-state area news and weather forecasts to your inbox.

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