The aunt of Atlanta Falcons football players A.J. and Avieon Terrell is dead at age 49 after another vehicle crashed into her parked car in a Kroger parking lot in Atlanta, Georgia.
Giselle Perry was waiting for her mother, whom she dropped off at the Kroger, when the accident occurred at around 3:20 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, her husband, Laddyan Perry, told Atlanta News First. Laddyan described her as “great, gorgeous, everything that’s good.”
Surveillance video obtained by Atlanta News First shows a car speeding through the lot and colliding with Giselle’s, which was parked near the entrance. The impact also sent other cars onto the sidewalk and injured a pedestrian. The pedestrian and driver of the vehicle were both taken to the hospital with serious injuries, WSB-TV reports.
The driver’s daughter, Tyeisha Wilson, told WSB that her mother “blacked out.”
“She didn’t even know what was happening,” Wright said.
Wright added, “I wanted to say my condolences and leave flowers for the woman. I’m really sorry about what happened… but I just wish things could have happened differently.”
Both of Giselle’s pro football nephews have paid tribute to her via Instagram.
“I’m torn, Aunty. Heart is heavy, I love you,” A.J., 27, wrote via his Instagram Story, according to WSB. He later added a black-and-white photo of Giselle with the text, “I can still hear you.”
Avieon, 21, also posted a black-and-white photo on Wednesday, following it up with a video the next day of himself at the Falcons’ facility, walking out to practice.
“For you, Aunty,” he wrote.
Witnesses to the accident described the terrifying scene in which Giselle’s car was t-boned and pushed into a metal pole.
“We seen and heard the car coming and two seconds later, boom, a loud bang and all of us ran down there and checked it out and it was horrible,” Tony Lackey, a barber who works nearby and was on a smoke break when the crash occurred, told WSB. “It looked like two of the cars had been in an explosion, like the car that she hit was t-boned because it was parked right there and brought all the way to the wall.”
A.J. and Avieon are both graduates of Clemson University. A.J. was the 16th overall pick by the Falcons in the 2020 NFL Draft and was named second-team All-Pro in 2021. Avieon is entering his rookie season as a second-round draft pick coming off a season in which he was named first-team All-ACC with the Tigers.
