Former Ojai Resident Killed In Baltimore
Gabriella Carmejo
Camejo, 22, was on dean’s list, set to graduate
Camejo and Kent Daniel Miller, 23, were walking in a north Baltimore neighborhood near Maryland Institute College of Art at about 10:30 p.m. when both were struck by a 2005 GMC Yukon driven by Teresa Jackson, 48.
Miller’s injuries were not life threatening and he told Baltimore city Police that he and Camejo had left a tavern shortly before the accident.
Camejo attended Malibu High School and was an Ojai Studio Artists scholarship recipient in 2007 and 2005. According to a 2007 OVN story, Camejo was interested in expressing dreams and the subconscious in art and hoped to study in Italy. She was a participant in the “Made in Ojai III” and “Made in Ojai V” art exhibits.
OSA member Ruth Farnham remembered Camejo from the OSA scholarship applications. “In Gabriella’s scholarship applications, there were letters from instructors that were really nice, so she was well thought of,” said Farnham, “I knew she was on the dean’s list and was apparently going to graduate in May with honors.”
“She was really talented,” said fellow OSA member Gayel Childress, who added that Camejo’s mother was very supportive of her artistic pursuits. “It’s sad to hear.”
Thanks you for the response to this horror. I still cannot believe this bright, hopeful spirit has been extinguished or silenced. I have to know that she is somewhere around us, maybe in the white Egret who appears so suddenly and watches as if to say “I am Here” or the sweeping gulls in flight over Malibu, her favorite hang out and where her High School was, or in soundless flight of the White Owl that glides over me as I walk or drive around here.
Hope we will all keep our memories of this lovely creative force, this gentle and kind human, exemplary Vegetarian and champion of so many important issues…lover of Life! Gabriella Giselle Camejo it is very hard to exist without your laughter and comments. I LOVE YOU and miss you madly. MOMa
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I was stunned walking along the street of Baltimore to see such a beautiful girl taken like that.
Baltimore needs healing, that city is doomed sometimes.
J
may your forever young spirit never be in darkness….give comfort to those who grieve your loss.
SO SORRY THAT SUCH A YOUNG BRIGHT WOMAN HAD TO DIE LIKE THAT, HOPEFULLY HER FRIEND WILL BE OK. GOD BLESS THEM ALL.
What a sad thing to happen to anybody