Nancy Whitby- Ferguson wants answers about the car crash that killed her two sons and left a third severely injured. The crash happened around 2 a.m on October 21, 2017, on the 500 block of Clemens Avenue in Lansing.
The driver was 35-year-old Anthony Walton, he died at the scene, his brother, 39-year-old Nicklos Smith died at the hospital, and another brother is still recovering at the hospital.
The mother still very heartbroken but said she believes there was foul play involved because of what people claim they witnessed. She is still trying to piece things together without giving up hope that one day she may find out exactly what happened.
"To lose two, one is hard enough, but two it's unbearable," said Nancy Whitby-Ferguson, mother of the brothers.
Nancy said she feels there is much more to that night that police are not telling her. She has received multiple calls from people who were there or who have heard some information regarding the situation. One call she said she received from a witness, informed her her son's car was not alone at the scene. "She saw the crash and there was a white car that just whipped around my son's vehicle really fast," said Nancy.
Later Nancy said she made a possible connection to that other car and a chase when she was informed by another woman that a vehicle might have been after her son's car. "She made a definite statement 'I know there was someone chasing them'" said Nancy.
Police said there was no evidence of any car chase or witnesses that say they saw a car speed off from the scene of the accident. But police tell News 10 speed and alcohol were factors. Nancy said she disagrees with the alcohol factor because that is not like them to jeopardize their lives. She said her youngest wouldn't allow his brother to drive if he was too intoxicated.
Nancy said the youngest brother, "would not have gotten in the vehicle because he would not jeopardize his life at all if he thought that Anthony might have been drinking."
Nancy said that a man also told her he heard a gunshot, to which she said that could have been why speed was a factor. She said "I'm thinking okay if there was a gunshot I can see why if speeding is a factor. My son would speed up possibly if someone was shooting at him."
She told the police about what she had learned about the gunshot, in an effort to get them to give the scene a more thorough look through. "I asked them to please go back and interview those people and see what they can come up with now," said Nancy.
The family said they would like to bring some truth to these unknown theories. As for now, they tell me they have to take this one step at a time.
Alvin Ferguson is their stepfather who described those boys as gentlemen, a quality that he said he will miss the most. "I love the boys but we are going to just take it one day at a time and ask God to prop us up and enable us to keep on."
The family is offering $5,000 to anyone with factual information about the crash. Police tell News 10 they have accident investigators working with the family as new information and theories come in.
