September 6th 2023.
Last Friday night, four-year-old twins Aurora and Kellan were put to bed by their father, Don Starr, while their mother, Sadie Myers, worked at night to avoid having a baby-sitter look after them. The twins often got up in the middle of the night and went back to sleep in different places. Little did they know that this time, it would be the last time.
That night, the twins decided to snuggle up in their cedar toy chest which was used to store all their stuffed animals. They each laid down with an arm over the other and fell asleep. Unbeknownst to them, most wooden toy chests become airtight and soundproof when closed. As they slept, the lid must have moved, shutting them inside the chest and trapping them with limited air supply.
The next morning, Myers panicked when she could not find her twins in their bed. The family searched their home frantically, until one of their older brothers opened the chest and found the twins. It was already too late; the twins had suffocated.
Sheriff’s deputies who arrived at the home in Florida administered life-saving measures on the twins, but could not revive them. Myers’ sister wrote in a GoFundMe page to help the family that the twins’ parents couldn’t have known that this would happen or done anything to stop it. The fundraiser had already raised more than $19,000 as of Tuesday night.
A service for Aurora and Kellan will be held on September 15. Myers wrote that not many will know the pain of losing two children at the same time in a way that makes no sense. But she believes that something in this universe chose them specifically, to protect them from some future tragedy, or because their souls were too perfect for this world.
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