Mom Who Was Homeless After NJ Move Loses 4 Kids In DUI Crash: Cop

A mother who was once homeless and lived out of her car after moving from New Jersey lost her four children in a DUI crash, police said.

Her 27-year-old boyfriend who also once lived in New Jersey was charged this week after the four children – all 8-years old-and younger – died in the Friday crash, police said. Two of the children were reportedly his own.

Arnez Yaron Jamison, who lived in Jersey City, was charged with four counts of felony driving-under-the-influence after the four died in the Greenville County, SC crash, police said.

Jamison also is charged with driving with a suspended license and child endangerment, police said.

Jamison was not wearing a seat belt and also was hospitalized after his 2004 Pontiac van ran off the road and struck a tree, police said.

Three of the children — Jamire Halley, 8; Robbiana Evans, 6; Arnez Yaron Jamison Jr., 4 – died at the scene of the crash around 12:30 a.m. on Friday on Route 253. Ar'mani Jamison, 2, died Sunday at Greenville Memorial Hospital, according to the Greenville County Coroners Office.

The mother, Jackie Brown, and Jamison Sr. had moved from Jersey City three years ago and were even homeless for a time before Brown finally got her life together, according to The Greenville News.

"She’s not taking it well," Crystal Griffith, who has organized a GoFundMe fund-raiser for the funeral and other expenses, told 12NewsNow. "These children were this lady's life."

Brown worked constantly, her friends told The Greenville News, trying to provide what she could, but she and her boyfriend found themselves without a permanent placed to live. They bounced from hotel to hotel and even slept in their car, a barely running Ford LTD.

Brown had been looking forward this year to having a tree with presents in her modest mobile home, accoriding to 12NewsNow.

Following the crash, Brown told The Greenville News she was at home cleaning last Thursday evening when Jamison Sr. took the children with him to visit another one of his children

The next day, then the hospital called to tell her about the crash.

“I just thought it would be bumps and bruises,” Brown told The Greenville News.

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