MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - It was an emotional balloon release on Saturday afternoon that honored two mothers who were struck and killed by a driver who investigators say sped through a red light at Emerson and 26th Avenue in Minneapolis.

Dozens wept and embraced before releasing scores of balloons Saturday over north Minneapolis to remember two community pillars who were killed in a fiery car accident. The crowd gathered near 26th and Emerson avenues to remember Esther Jean Fulks,

Two women were in the vehicle. Chief O'Hara says one woman died at the scene and the other was extricated from the wreckage and later died at North Memorial Health care Hospital. The occupants of the other vehicle, a man and woman, were taken to a hospital with what were described as potentially life-threatening injuries.

Two people are dead and three others are injured after a crash in north Minneapolis on Monday morning. The Minneapolis Police Department says the crash happened around 10:21 a.m. at Emerson Avenue North and 26th Avenue North.

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