Navasota woman killed on train tracks while posing for photos to launch modeling career
Fredzania "Zanie" Thompson excelled in athletics while she was a student at Navasota High School, earning several athletic scholarships. She chose to attend Blinn College in Bryan, but the lure of a dream she'd had as a child was strong enough that she put her education on hold.
"She was more interested in modeling," her mother, Hakamie Stevenson, said. "That's definitely what she wanted to do. It's what she had started to do the day she was deceased."
Thompson was killed Friday in Navasota while posing for photos on a set of train tracks. Witnesses told investigators she was standing where two train tracks meet. Police said one set of tracks belonged to BNSF and the other to Union Pacific. Thomson was standing between the tracks and watching for an oncoming train from BNSF with her back turned toward an oncoming Union Pacific train. Witnesses said she tried to cross the Union Pacific tracks to avoid the BNSF train and was hit by the Union Pacific train.
She died en route to a local hospital.
Thompson was many things to many people, including an athlete, hair and makeup whiz, as well as a caring companion. To her five younger brothers and sisters, the young woman was a role model, said Stevenson.
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