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A long distance love story with an airport elopement
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ST. LOUIS – Lara Mark and Cylas Hensley’s love story has always involved travel.
“Him from DC, and me from St. Louis just randomly meeting at a good friend’s wedding,” Mark said.
Their photo booth fun at that San Diego wedding in 2018 sparked a long-distance relationship nurtured through talking, texting, and traveling.
“We decided we’d fly out to see each other every three or four weeks,” Mark said. “So that has been a nice direct flight.”
Hensley popped the question last year in Hawaii. Newly engaged, these frequent flyers naturally planned a destination wedding for March in Mexico. However, in November, those plans hit turbulence. Mark’s mom, Judi, was diagnosed with lung cancer.
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“She wanted us to and made me promise from day one of her diagnosis until the Sunday before I left for the wedding that we wouldn’t change anything,” Mark said. “That we wouldn’t alter our plans. She wanted me to be happy.”
She kept that promise to her mom, for the most part. On March 20, Mark left St. Louis Lambert International Airport to meet Hensley in Houston. Inside Hobby Airport, the couple made one adjustment to their travel itinerary before leaving for Mexico. With a chapel and chaplain, a pre-flight first dance, and newlywed bonding before boarding, this airport elopement had it all. Mark’s mom got to see it all in pictures and videos back home in St. Louis.
“She was going to be with us one way or another,” Mark said.
A few days later in Mexico, Judi’s picture was prominently positioned as Mark and Hensley took two of their “I do’s” among friends and family. Mark soon learned this new chapter in her life started as her mother’s life ended.
“The next day, my aunt told me she passed about 30 minutes before our wedding ceremony,” she said. “In my mind, she was with us in spirit and waited so she could join us.”
Mark said when she lives her life, it feels like there is a constant balance between the good and the bad.
“I feel like you have a choice on what you want to latch onto. If possible, try to see all of it,” she said. “The good and the bad. It was a rollercoaster for sure, but I wouldn’t change it. I got to fulfill my promise to her, and she got to be there. There was no other way she could’ve been there with us without it happening this way.”
This flight plan we call life is full of headwinds and tailwinds. One day you’re in stuck in coach, the next you’re flying first-class. But as this story proves, the losses and love we experience along the way make it a trip worth taking.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – Two people are behind bars after a man reportedly attacked a Jefferson County deputy with a screwdriver during an attempted arrest over the weekend.
Prosecutors have charged Nicholas Davis, 47, and Amanda Davis, 45, of Dittmer, Missouri, with felonies in the investigation.
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The alleged attack followed a traffic stop of a driver in the 9500 block of Jones Creek Road on July 7, though the driver was not Nicholas or Amanda.
According to court documents obtained by FOX 2, Nicholas reportedly came out of his nearby home, yelled at a deputy and started approaching him while holding a screwdriver. The deputy initially ordered Nicholas to back away, then used pepper spray.
Per court documents, the deputy attempted to arrest Nicholas, who then struck him in the chest with the screwdriver. Amanda reportedly approached the deputy and pulled him away from Nicholas before both ran inside their home.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says the situation prompted an hours-long standoff involving negotiators, a SWAT team and a K-9 deputy. The situation led to Nicholas refusing warnings and being bitten by a K-9.
Nicholas and Amanda are both jailed in the Jefferson County Jail without bond. Nicholas is charged with first-degree assault on a special victim and armed criminal action. Amanda is charged with resisting/interfering with arrest.
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ST. LOUIS — The new St. Louis schools superintendent will be officially sworn into office today. Dr. Keisha Scarlett took over the job in July after the retirement of Dr. Kelvin Adams. She was assistant superintendent in the Seattle Public School District. The installation ceremony is at 6:15 p.m. before the regular school board meeting.
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ST. LOUIS — A gasoline tanker truck crashed into a Metro transit center near Riverview and Hall Streets early Tuesday morning and knocked over a power pole. The pole is leaning on other power lines. Police have the area blocked off here because there is a downed power line. Ameren and Metro crews are also on the scene.
The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. It’s still unclear exactly what caused the crash, but we do that there was a second vehicle somehow involved. The airbags on that second vehicle did deploy.
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Police at the scene have not been able to give us a lot of details. Metro officials tell FOX 2 that the transit center here is operating this morning for passengers and buses. Access to certain areas will be limited here as clean up unfolds.
A Metro spokesperson says half of the station isn’t being used right now because of safety issues. It isn’t impacting overall bus operations, everything is just happening on the other side of transit center.
The extent of the damage to the actual transit center is still unclear, but I’m told it does not appear to be extreme. A Metro spokesperson tells me there were no injuries to any metro workers or passengers. The tanker driver also was not injured.
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