The rapper Drake took time during a performance in Buffalo, New York, this week to acknowledge the fatal crash that killed two of his concertgoers in 狐狸视频 earlier this month.
Video of his comments, posted by fans online, shows Drake walking around a darkened stage with a spotlight on him as he and thanked his fans for supporting him through the years.
Then, Drake mentioned the fatal crash in 狐狸视频.
鈥淚 don鈥檛 mean to dampen the mood,鈥 鈥淚 saw a video today, we had a show in 狐狸视频, and a mother and her young daughter lost their life leaving the show.鈥
The video, leaked earlier this week, shows an SUV blowing through a red light, hitting another vehicle and slamming into two pedestrians crossing the street. The vehicle did not appear to brake before the crash.
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The pedestrians, Laticha Bracero, 42, and her daughter Alyssa Cordova, 21, were visiting 狐狸视频 for the Drake concert at Enterprise Center on Feb. 13. They lived near Garfield Park on Chicago鈥檚 west side.
Drake said that while being at a concert like his is a happy moment for people, 鈥測ou never know what somebody else鈥檚 reality will be when they walk out of this building.鈥
He asked the crowd of about 18,000 to turn to someone they did not know, look them in the eyes and 鈥減rove that you鈥檙e grateful for your life.鈥
鈥淚 want you to take five seconds out of your day to make somebody else鈥檚 day,鈥 he said. 鈥淛ust show them some love. Because you never know what comes next.鈥
Police said the driver in the crash was 22-year-old Monte Henderson. The Kirkwood man was charged Feb. 15 with two counts of first-degree involuntary manslaughter and two counts of armed criminal action. Prosecutors said data retrieved from the vehicle showed it was traveling more than 70 mph before running the light.
Henderson was released from jail after posting a $20,000 cash bond on Feb. 16, but he had no restrictions on his movements or ability to drive.
Then a judge on Tuesday, around the time the leaked video gained widespread attention, ordered Henderson not to drive and stay on house arrest while out on bond.
The video appears to be a cellphone recording of police surveillance footage playing on a separate computer monitor; police cameras are mounted on the traffic light pole at the northwest corner of the intersection of Olive and North 18th streets.
The video shows Bracero and Cordova crossing Olive in the 18th Street crosswalk in the Downtown West neighborhood. The intersection is busy, despite the late hour 鈥 the crash happened after midnight. There are at least three pedestrians shown in the intersection and multiple cars passing through before the crash.
Police are investigating the leak internally, said department spokesman Sgt. Charles Wall, who declined further comment.
Henderson鈥檚 attorney, Scott Rosenblum, called the video leak 鈥渄isappointing.鈥
鈥淚鈥檇 like to find out how that happened,鈥 he said.
Family and friends of Bracero and Cordova, the two women killed in the crash, described the duo as fun-loving, energetic and inseparable.