Youngtowns News Vindy.com | John Goodwin, Jr.
Melesia Day was KILLED by the father of her child more than a year ago, but the 20-year-old lives on through the organs she donated to three people, including an aunt who was diagnosed with lupus.
Day, by all accounts, was a happy young woman who enjoyed life and spending time with her 2-year-old daughter. That all came to an end a year ago today — June 23, 2011 — when police found the young mother lying on the floor of her Tyrell Avenue home with a gunshot wound to the neck. Standing over her was her boyfriend, 21-year-old Patrell Scott.
Scott claimed the shooting was accidental. He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and faces up to 11 years in prison. He will be sentenced Aug. 8 in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.
Day fought to stay alive for several days before her mother, Melissa Floyd, consented to take her off life support. Floyd then had to make another crucial decision: whether to allow her daughter’s organs to be taken for transplant.
Day’s aunt, 39-year-old Tessia Day, was diagnosed with systemic lupus in 2003 after a kidney biopsy. Tessia Day’s doctors tried to get her kidneys back to proper function, but all attempts failed.
Lupus is an autoimmune disease where the body’s immune system becomes hyperactive and attacks normal, healthy tissue, according to the Medical News Today website.
“The lupus progressed,” Tessia Day said. “It goes through stages from stage one through stage five, and I was at stage five. My kidney function just began to decrease even more.”
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