Posted August 06, 2018 02:36pm
(KAIR)--The woman killed in a two vehicle Saint Joseph, Missouri crash last week had ties to Atchison.
KQ2-TV reports Saint Joseph Police identify the victim of Friday's wreck as 29-year-old Cassandra Blackmore.
Her obituary from the Alden-Harrington Funeral Home, in Bonner Springs, names her as Cassandra Blackmore-Stroble, listing her fiance as Joseph Stroble, who lives in Atchison.
The obituary names Blackmore-Stroble as a resident of Bonner Springs.
Her funeral service is set for Saturday afternoon at the funeral home.
Blackmore-Stroble died when 23-year-old Faucett, Missouri resident Bronson Cooper ran a red light on Saint Joseph's South Belt Highway, near U.S. Highway 36, and struck Blackmore-Stroble's vehicle.
The Buchanan County prosecutor's office has charged Cooper with one count of second-degree involunatry manslaughter.
Blackmore's 8-year-old passenger was transported by helicopter to Children's Mercy Hospital, in Kansas City, with serious injuries.