Samajie Grant has overcome adversity in his life before losing his mom at a young age to a sudden passing. His deep devotion of his mom has been a source of motivation and inspiration from the time he lost her until today. Tragedy hit Grant again just as he is finishing up his senior year at Arizona and preparing for a professional football career.
Last Tuesday, his grandmother’s sister Rosalind Pitchford, 53, from Rialto, California, also passed suddenly in a hit and run in Fontana, California. On Wednesday, investigators identified the hit and run suspect as 20-year-old Jesus Orozco, the driver of the 2001 silver Honda Accord that struck Rosalind as a pedestrian.