Kenya Glasgow & 2-year-old daughter Kennedi killed in freak Margate, Florida lightning stike as husband and father, Kam Glasgow desperately looked on ‘1 In 1.2 million’ freak accident.
What were the odds…? A Florida mother and one of her 2-year-old twin daughters were killed in a freak lightning strike — as the devastated husband and dad looked on.
Kenya Glasgow, 31, and her young daughter Kennedi were found lying on the sidewalk in Margate after they were jolted by a bolt of lightning around 2:30 p.m Sunday, according to the Margate Police Department.
‘1 In 1.2 million’ freak accident
‘I saw the whole thing,’ Kam Glasgow the mourning husband and father told the nypost.
‘A bolt of lightning came down, I got hit with the residuals from the ground and I looked over and that’s when I saw them,’ the shattered dad added.
‘S–t can’t be real,’ he also wrote on Facebook of the ‘1 In 1.2 million’ freak accident.
First responders treated the victims and performing CPR at the scene before mother and and daughter rushed to separate hospitals, only to be each declared dead soon afterward, WPLG reported.
Kam said that Kenya had been the ‘love of my life’ since they were around 16 and had been together 15 years, tying the knot four years ago.
‘I just lost my best friend,’ he wrote of his wife.
‘My daughter just lost her best friend,’ he added of his surviving daughter, Kensli, who will now be raised without her twin sister, Kennedi.
Grieving husband and father and surviving toddler forge to move forward
Kam said that he and Kensli now ‘have to pick up the pieces and lean on our village.’
Since Sunday’s tragedy, he and his daughter have been feeding off ‘support from our large family and a vast amount of friends who are still, technically family.’
Kam described his late wife as the ‘most amazing spirit in this world.’
‘My wife had the biggest heart in the world. And only cared about everybody else and never cared about herself. She put everybody before herself. Everybody showed up for everyone. Without hesitation,’ the grieving husband said.
Margate, Florida husband and father pays tribute
In a tribute he posted on social media, Kam thanked Kenya and Kennedi ‘for choosing me as your husband and father.’
‘My babies didn’t suffer. I’m hurt we are hurt but if you gotten [sic] the chance to feel that beautiful light my wife and daughter brought into your life, cherish it. It’s there for a reason,’ he wrote.
‘Don’t worry about Kensli and I. I know you both have us covered for the rest of our lives. We will make you both our story and take it one day at time because I know you both are guiding us,’ he wrote.
Margate Police said the incident remains under investigation.
Kenya and Kennedi were the 11th and 12th by lightning fatalities in the US this year, according to the latest data from the National Lightning Safety Council.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Florida has famously been known as the ‘lightning capital’ as it has recorded over 2,000 related injuries over the past 50 years.
Florida leads the nation in lightning deaths with 100 reported from 2006 through 2025, according to the National Lightning Safety Council.
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