"Loving Daughter Sister and Friend Arianna is survived by her parents Toriano (Maria) and Tracy (Jimmy); sister Jayda; brothers Toriano, Jr., Torell and Giovan; also survived by many other loving relatives and friends. Funeral service 11:30 AM Friday (8/20) at Spielman Mortuary, 344 W. University Ave., St. Paul. Friends may gather at 10:30. Burial Resurrection Cemetery. In lieu of flowers memorials are preferred to the Arianna Tatum Memorial Benefit Account. Donations may be made at any TCF Bank location."
"The memorial that has sprouted on the White Bear Avenue bridge over I-94 in St. Paul would have surprised Arianna Tatum, her friends said this evening.
On Wednesday afternoon, Tatum, 20, walked halfway across the bridge, took off her shoes, climbed a fence and jumped to the highway below, to be hit by a car, then another, and then another.
None of the reticent young people, who stood on the bridge looking at the traffic below, knew or would say what finally led the young woman to kill herself.
"She was depressed, but she never sought help for it," one told me.
"She was down on herself," said another. "She didn't realize how many people cared."
This evening, Arianna Tatum's family and friends are lighting candles in her memory on the bridge."
"The memorial that has sprouted on the White Bear Avenue bridge over I-94 in St. Paul would have surprised Arianna Tatum, her friends said this evening.
On Wednesday afternoon, Tatum, 20, walked halfway across the bridge, took off her shoes, climbed a fence and jumped to the highway below, to be hit by a car, then another, and then another.
None of the reticent young people, who stood on the bridge looking at the traffic below, knew or would say what finally led the young woman to kill herself.
"She was depressed, but she never sought help for it," one told me.
"She was down on herself," said another. "She didn't realize how many people cared."
This evening, Arianna Tatum's family and friends are lighting candles in her memory on the bridge."
"Loving Daughter Sister and Friend Arianna is survived by her parents Toriano (Maria) and Tracy (Jimmy); sister Jayda; brothers Toriano, Jr., Torell and Giovan; also survived by many other loving relatives and friends. Funeral service 11:30 AM Friday (8/20) at Spielman Mortuary, 344 W. University Ave., St. Paul. Friends may gather at 10:30. Burial Resurrection Cemetery. In lieu of flowers memorials are preferred to the Arianna Tatum Memorial Benefit Account. Donations may be made at any TCF Bank location."
"The memorial that has sprouted on the White Bear Avenue bridge over I-94 in St. Paul would have surprised Arianna Tatum, her friends said this evening.
On Wednesday afternoon, Tatum, 20, walked halfway across the bridge, took off her shoes, climbed a fence and jumped to the highway below, to be hit by a car, then another, and then another.
None of the reticent young people, who stood on the bridge looking at the traffic below, knew or would say what finally led the young woman to kill herself.
"She was depressed, but she never sought help for it," one told me.
"She was down on herself," said another. "She didn't realize how many people cared."
This evening, Arianna Tatum's family and friends are lighting candles in her memory on the bridge."
"The memorial that has sprouted on the White Bear Avenue bridge over I-94 in St. Paul would have surprised Arianna Tatum, her friends said this evening.
On Wednesday afternoon, Tatum, 20, walked halfway across the bridge, took off her shoes, climbed a fence and jumped to the highway below, to be hit by a car, then another, and then another.
None of the reticent young people, who stood on the bridge looking at the traffic below, knew or would say what finally led the young woman to kill herself.
"She was depressed, but she never sought help for it," one told me.
"She was down on herself," said another. "She didn't realize how many people cared."
This evening, Arianna Tatum's family and friends are lighting candles in her memory on the bridge."
