Family: Mementos of teen killed in I-75 crash stolen

HENRY COUNTY, Ga. — Parents whose teenage daughter died in a crash are trying to understand why someone would steal a safe containing some of her items.

It's hard to miss the large memorial for Summer Lee outside her family's home. The Lee family says that wasn't enough to stop thieves from doing the unthinkable.

Kim Lee says she's felt love and support from her Henry County community ever since her daughter Summer died in a nine-car crash on Interstate 75.

She feels violated, because she says someone stole the family's safe that had some summer's mementos inside.

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"That was something we tried saving to have a little piece of her left," Lee said.

She says Summer's father realized the safe, which held cash and personal items, was missing from the house on Sunday morning.

Their daughter's birth certificate, wallet and bag for her diabetes medicine was inside the safe that was too heavy for one person to hold.

"It was a very big safe that weighed 200 or 300 pounds," Lee said.

Lee told Channel 2's Matt Johnson she can't help but feel like the thieves knew their situation and the layout of the house since nothing else was taken. %

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"If it was someone that knew us that they knew the tragic death of our daughter that they would not want to put us through any more pain," Lee said.

The Lee family says the thieves likely broke into the house on Friday or Saturday while Summer's father was away.

They say they're out thousands of dollars that were in the safe, but it's not the cash they want the thieves to return.

"Return my daughter's personals stuff so we can have something that meant something to her left her us," Lee said.

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