police custody. and three days since he died. and we still have very little information. the voices of demonstrators united making their point clear. baltimore is fed up. the baltimore police department lined with barricades and officers protesters standing firm with their demand for justice. how do you take a man, put him in handcuffs and give him as you want to hurt him dead. we hear the frustration of the community. we hear the angst and the hurt in the gray family. and we have an obligation to make sure that we are as open and transparent with this investigation as we can be. reporter: freddie gray s mother shielding her face overcome with grief tuesday, still unable to lay her son to rest. police have yet to turn over his body. the family plans to conduct a second private autopsy. the baltimore sun quoting the family as saying before he died
the baltimore police department lined with barricades and officers protesters standing firm with their demand for justice. how do you take a man, put him in handcuffs and we hear the frustration of the community. we hear the angst and the hurt in the gray family. and we have an obligation to make sure that we are as open and transparent with this investigation as we can be. reporter: freddie gray s mother shielding her face overcome with grief tuesday. still unable to lay her son to rest. police have yet to turn over his body. the family plans to conduct a second private autopsy. the baltimore sun quoting the family as saying before he died gray underwent surgery for three fractured vertebrae in his neck. i don t know at what point mr. gray suffered the traumatic and fatal injuries. i don t know. but i m determined to get to the bottom of it. reporter: the department of
that s how we start her story. i remember hearing a long time ago that her mother in part saved her. is that at all true? how did she manage to survive? you know, who knows how cecelia managed to survive. children survive more than adults. the story about her mother shielding her have been verified as false. no human being can keep a human being close to them when a plane is crashing. absolutely not. i want to talk about survivor s guilt. for years you suffered from that after a car crash. tell us about that. sure. when i was in high school i switched places with a good friend before he got into a car that was in a crash five minutes later. he ended up dying and i obviously ended up living. at the time in high school i didn t realize i had survivor s
others. she has no memory of the crash but cannot forget the moment she understood. i remember feeling angry, survivors guilt. why didn t my brother survive? why me? it is believed she survived because her mother shielding her. one of the reasons kids have a better chance of surviving crashes than adults. also, their bones are less brittle more able to absorb impact. when it comes to the sole survivors of crashes more than half are children. cecilia is now cecilia crocker and happily married. flies regularly and even got this tattoo of a plane on her wrist. so many things on my body against my will and i decided to put this on my body for myself. reporter: turning tragedy into a life of triumph.