DEDICATION LOVE HARMONEE MADD®dedicatesthisreport toLove, Laverneand to all the victims of the 100 percent preventable crimes of drunk and drug-impaired driving.
Love Harmonee Georgia Ingram, 10 years old
On June 22, 2018, in Fayetteville NC, 10-year-old Love Harmonee Georgia Ingram and her mother, Laverne were on the way home after saying goodbye to their best friends who were moving to Arizona. “It was about 9 o’clock at night. We were on the way home and we were the third car in line at the light. As we started going through the green light, all I heard was the explosion and I was knocked out,” said Laverne. Laverne woke up shortly after, but her beautiful, innocent daughter, Love did not. Police later said the offender was drunk and had just left a local sports bar when he sped through the red light at the intersection crashing into Laverne and her daughter. They were less than 2 miles from home. As Laverne’s only child, everything she does, she does for Love. Their relationship has always been uniquely special; just them against the world. For anyone who met Love they quickly saw a kind, sweet, funny, intelligent, gorgeous, talented, and caring young lady who was excited about life and always making others smile. She put others before herself and she motivated everyone. She loved to sing, dance, and play sports. She was an A student who loved to participate in school and church related activities. Her soul and her heart were special, and she always kept a smile on her beautiful face. On June 22, 2018, one man and one decision took all that away from her. In an instant, one person stole Love’s life and Laverne’s will to live. Love will never have a chance to go to prom, have a boyfriend, experience her first kiss, graduate, go to college, and all the other milestones that come with growing up. He snatched
that away from her. Laverne suffers incomprehensible grief and struggles every single day to find reasons to keep going. But she continues to turn her pain into purpose, seek justice, and honor her baby girl by raising awareness about the dangers of impaired driving in her local community and volunteering with MADD North Carolina. On March 11, 2020, Laverne bravely faced her baby’s murderer in court and gave a powerful and emotional victim impact statement. He was convicted of second- degree murder with a minimum of 13 and a half years. “Her name is Love Harmonee Georgia Ingram,” said Laverne Baxter, “I don’t ever use the word ‘was’ because she’ll never be a ‘was’ in my life.”
IF YOU OR A LOVED ONE HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY DRUNK OR DRUG- IMPAIRED DRIVING, MADD IS HERE TO HELP. CALL OUR VICTIM/ SURVIVOR 24-HOUR HELPLINE AT 877-MADD-HELP (877-623-3435).
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