"Not only is she losing one, she’s losing two." "I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy," Shawnez McKenzie said. In the aftermath of this tragedy, the McKenzie family is now taking it one day at a time. "It's fitting almost, to say that they're together," Shawnez McKenzie said. The two siblings also had a special bond, with their grandmother calling them "the dynamic duo." "She definitely would've changed the world," Asia McKenzie concluded. "I think what bothers me the most … we won't see what she would've become,” Shawnez McKenzie said. Shawnez McKenzie said she knew she was going to be very special. The two said they knew Addyson was smart from a very young age. "I call her big little sister because she ran the household." "But very sassy - very, very sassy," Shawnez McKenzie added. "Everybody loves Addison that encountered her," McKenzie said. "He had dimples and he can walk into a room and just smile, and everybody looks. ![]() "Alijah - he was one of those charismatic boys," she said. The mom said both of her kids were incredibly special. Provided by Shawnez McKenzie Addyson and Alijah McKenzie The home on Strand Lane is draped in balloons, flowers and stuffed animals in memory and Alijah and Addyson. McKenzie and the children's grandmother, Shawnez McKenzie, said they have received an outpouring of support from the community. The other two were rescued by firefighters and taken to the hospital, but died a week later. She was able to get two of her kids out safely. ![]() "And every time I had to come back down the steps, I felt more and more helpless because I know that they were in there looking for me to come and rescue them." I kept running back in, and kept running back in," she said. ![]() McKenzie said she did everything she could to get her four children out of the house. "I didn't know where it was coming from because it was pitch black." "It cut all the electricity off inside the house immediately," she said. She said her daughter plugged her laptop into the wall and blew a fuse, resulting in a fire. “I was already having some electrical problems in my unit that I had expressed with CMHA (Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority)," McKenzie said. Their mother, Asia McKenzie, said she believes an electrical issue sparked the fire at her home on Strand Lane. CINCINNATI - A mother and grandmother are opening up about the house fire in Winton Hills that tragically claimed the lives of two children.Īlijah McKenzie, 7, and Addyson Marshall, 5, died earlier this month after a fire at their home on the morning of May 11.
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