Eugene’s Flower Home had its front windows destroyed at 2 a.m. this morning when 18-year-old Aaron G. Blanton lost control of a stolen pickup and crashed into the flower shop. Blanton, who is not a University student, was evading police and tried to turn the corner of Peterson and 13th before the crash.
Eugene’s Flower Home, a flower shop at the intersection of 13th and Peterson, was smashed into, early Tuesday morning, by a truck that lost control while evading the police. (Nate Barrett/Oregon Daily Emerald)
Kurt Russell, the gold fish, was in a fishtank that got hit and thrown by a truck that smashed through the front of Eugene’s Flower Home. Russell’s tank then crashed to the ground and he ended up surving in debris for 11 hours before being found alive and rescued. (Nate Barrett/Oregon Daily Emerald)
Laurie Brooks-Headley, the owner of Eugene’s Flower Home, sits on a stool and talks on the phone in the back section of her shop. (Nate Barrett/Oregon Daily Emerald)
A clean-up crew quickly boarded up and fixed a majority of the damage to the building which had almost all of its front interior smashed and destroyed. (Nate Barrett/Oregon Daily Emerald)
