A South Florida father is mourning the deaths of his wife and 2-year-old daughter after both were struck by lightning just feet from their home as the family tried to get inside during a thunderstorm.
CBS News Miami reporter Morgan Rynor said Kameron Glasgow was only a few steps away when the strike happened in Margate on Sunday afternoon, killing his wife, 31-year-old Kenya Glasgow, and their daughter Kennedy.
Glasgow told Rynor that the family had been heading inside for dinner when the rain started getting heavier, turning what should have been an ordinary walk from the driveway to the front door into a tragedy that unfolded within seconds.
‘The Biggest Heart In The World’
Speaking through tears, Glasgow described his wife and daughter as extraordinary people and said Kenya had a habit of putting everyone else before herself.
“My wife, the biggest heart in the world,” he said.
He called her one of his heroes and said she helped shape the person he became.
“That was my hero next to my dad,” Glasgow told CBS News Miami. “She helped make me into the man I am today.”
Rynor said Glasgow chose to speak publicly because he wanted people to know who his wife was, rather than only hearing about the circumstances of her death.
That is one of the most heartbreaking parts of his interview. In the middle of unimaginable grief, he was still focused on making sure Kenya was remembered for the life she lived and not simply as a name in a tragic news story.
They Were Just Trying To Get Inside
According to Rynor, the family had arrived home and noticed the weather getting worse.
Glasgow said they made the same decision almost any parent would make in that situation.
“We saw that the rain was picking up and we just said, ‘Hey, we need to get the girls inside,’” he recalled.
The plan was simple: cover the children with a blanket and quickly move from the car to the house.
Then lightning struck.
Margate police said the strike happened around 2:30 p.m. in the area of 7941 Northwest 1st Street.
The suddenness of the incident is what makes it so difficult to process. There was no risky outdoor activity and no long period of exposure; the family was simply trying to make it through the last few feet to safety.
Neighbor Rushed Across The Street To Help
A neighbor, Prince Moody, told CBS News Miami that he had just gotten his own family inside when he heard a loud burst of thunder and saw what looked like an orange glow.
His son then told him that he believed someone had been struck.
Moody initially could not believe it.
He looked outside and saw a woman lying on the ground.
“As I get closer, there’s also a toddler lying a couple of feet from the mother,” Moody said.
He rushed across the street to help, but the scene was something he said he never wanted to witness again.
Moody’s account shows how quickly the danger developed. One family had just made it safely indoors while another, only steps away, suffered a direct and devastating strike.
Kennedy Leaves Behind Her Twin Sister
Kennedy was 2 years old and had a twin sister, Kinsley.
Rynor said Glasgow became especially emotional when he talked about what it will be like when Kinsley begins looking for her mother and sister.
“It’s going to crush my heart when she starts looking for her sister and her mom,” he said.
Glasgow described Kennedy as having an “infectious” personality and said she could sing every word to Benson Boone songs.
He also said he knows he has to somehow keep going because Kinsley still needs him.
“It’s going to be tough,” Glasgow said. “But I’ll be OK. I have to be because I have another beautiful daughter inside there.”
Then he added that there were no words to explain what it means for a 2-year-old to lose her twin sister.
That may be the hardest reality ahead for the family. Glasgow is grieving two people at once while also preparing to help a very young child understand why two of the most important people in her world are suddenly gone.
Another Mother Knows The Same Pain
Rynor also spoke about another South Florida family that had experienced a similar loss.
Lealani Day lost her 16-year-old son Cameron to a lightning strike two years earlier.
She said she never imagined lightning could take the life of someone she knew personally.
“I never, in a million years, would have thought that my son or anyone I know personally would have lost their life being struck by lightning,” Day said.
Her story adds another painful layer to the Glasgow family’s loss because lightning deaths are rare enough to feel almost impossible until they happen.
The incident involving Kenya and Kennedy remains under investigation by the Margate Police Department.
Florida’s Lightning Danger Is Real
Rynor noted that Florida leads the nation in lightning strikes and lightning-related deaths.
Federal health data cited in the report says the odds of a person being struck by lightning in a given year are less than one in a million, while roughly 10% of lightning strikes are fatal.
Those odds are extremely low, but they do not make the danger meaningless.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends seeking shelter as soon as thunder is heard, rather than waiting until lightning is visible.
That advice is especially important in Florida, where thunderstorms can develop quickly and lightning can strike well away from the heaviest rain.
Once indoors, people are also advised to avoid open areas, bodies of water and objects that can conduct electricity.
Safety guidance can sound routine until a case like this makes the risk painfully real.
The Glasgow family was already trying to do the right thing by getting out of the weather, yet the timing was tragically unforgiving.
A Family Changed In Seconds
Glasgow told Rynor that Kenya had been part of his life for roughly half of it.
Now he is facing the loss of his wife and daughter at the same time, while trying to remain strong for Kinsley.
He said he knows the coming days and years will be difficult, but he feels he has no choice except to keep moving forward.
The story is a reminder of how little warning some disasters give.
A family dinner was waiting inside. Rain was getting heavier. A father and mother were trying to hurry their children from the car to the house.
Then, in a matter of seconds and only a few feet, everything changed.
Glasgow’s decision to speak publicly made one thing especially clear: he does not want Kenya and Kennedy remembered only for the lightning strike that killed them.
He wants people to remember a wife with what he called the biggest heart in the world, and a little girl whose personality filled the room.
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