The Florida Highway Patrol, county medical examiner's office and two funeral homes are being sued for sending the bodies of two Black teens to the wrong funeral homes, Pensacola News Journal reported.

The families of Samara Cooks and Deleigha Gibson, two Black teens killed in a car crash, are suing the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) for mixing up the teens' bodies.

The crash happened on July 29, 2019, when Cooks, 15, and Gibson, 18, were riding with two other friends, Daichunique Lavender, 20, and Renee Banks, 18, in the rural area of Escambia County. Suddenly, their car lost control and swerved into another lane, hitting a utility pole and tree line.

Cooks and Gibson were pronounced dead on the scene. Lavender and Banks were taken to a local hospital in critical condition.

The lawsuit, which was filed in the Escambia County Circuit Court last Thursday, alleges one of the girls' organs were harvested without approval.

"I just really wish that they treated her with dignity," Ranada Cooks, the mother of Samara, told NBC News. "Let her go out like a lady."

“I wish they treated her with dignity. They failed our girls.” An emotional press conference w/parents of two teenagers who died in a car crash. The two girls’ identities were switched after death.

Now two lawsuits are filed against FHP and Escambia County Med Examiner Office. pic.twitter.com/tZ71ivhrvp

— Danielle Apolinar (@DanielleApoNews) March 6, 2020

Ranada is alleging FHP mistook her daughter's identity after authorities obtained Gibson's ID at the crash scene and thought it belonged to Samara, NBC News reported.

According to Pensacola News Journal, the families said medical examiners didn't thoroughly verify the girls' identities and prohibited them from seeing their loved ones' bodies.

The mix-up of the young ladies' identities continued during their funeral services.

Samara's loved ones were confused during the funeral, especially Ranada who thought her daughter could still be alive somewhere.

"That's when I noticed that it was not Samara and it was a mix-up," Ranada told CBS News. "I was thinking, 'Well maybe there's a chance that she's still alive.'"

"Due to the nature of this crash involving multiple ejections, positive identifications at the scene were not made," the FHP said in a statement to CBS.

Upon discovering there was a mix-up, the families said the funeral homes tried to deceive them by switching out the bodies without them knowing.

Demetrius Gibson, the father of Deleigha, was upset that "his daughter's last wishes weren't honored."

"It was real brave of her to want to be an organ donor. For her not to get her last wish to maybe help a number of people, maybe even save someone's life, help someone out, is unfortunate," Demetrius told NBC News.

Both families are continuing to seek more answers from officials on what happened to their daughters.

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