'I've made a mistake,' she says seconds before drowning
(NEWSER) - "If I'm going to die, you're all going to die with me," a distraught mom told her four children before plunging her minivan into the Hudson River. But seconds before Lashanda Armstrong drowned with her three youngest kids, she told 10-year-old son Lashaun: "I've made a mistake." With that, she released the boy's pants leg and he managed to wriggle from a window and swim to shore. Those heartbreaking last seconds of his family were recounted to cops by the sole survivor , reveals the New York Daily News . A passing good Samaritan quickly picked up soaking-wet Lashaun, who was frantically waving his arms from the New York riverfront after the deaths Tuesday. More»