Fredzania Thompson was a 19-year-old aspiring model.

She was a resident of College Station, Texas.

Thompson graduated from Navasota High School in Texas. ^[9] Thompson was enrolled at Blinn College, a junior college. However, she was taking time off to pursue modeling full time. She was majoring in kinesiology. ^[9]

In her modeling career, Thompson was represented by Explore Talent. ^[2]According to her fiancé, she was offered several modeling opportunities in the past, but turned them down. ^[1]

On March 10, 2017, Thompson was killed by a freight train while standing on train tracks for a photo shoot.

She and her photographer were standing roughly 60 miles northwest of Houston, around 12:45 p.m. local time when two trains approached from opposite directions. ^[14]

According to Navasota Assistant City Manager and Director of Public Safety Shawn Myatt, both trains were blowing their horns, but as Thompson stepped out of the path of a BNSF train, she moved into the way of a Union Pacific train.

^[14]The train had 101 cars loaded with grain and was traveling from Oklahoma to Beaumont.

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She died en route to a local hospital.

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Following the accident, traffic was stopped in Navasota for more than 5 hours while authorities conducted an investigation.

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She died 3 days before her 20th birthday.

A group of loved ones gathered around on what would've been her 20th birthday and set dozens of balloons floating in the sky in memory of Fredzania.

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Fredzania Thompson's funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 18, 2017, at the Brosig Auditorium in Navasota, followed with a graveside service in Oakland Cemetery. Before the funeral, the public can pay their respects at a visitation beginning at 10 a.m. Arrangements are under the direction of Psalms Funeral Home. ^{[1] [4]}

Her fiancé has established a GoFundMe to assist her family with funeral expenses. ^[3]

Thompson was from a family of 9; she had 5 brothers and 3 sisters.

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At the time of her death, she was pregnant and engaged to 25-year-old Earl Chatman ^[3]at the time of her death; Chatman found out she was pregnant two weeks before her death.

^[11]She deeply loved Chatman's 7-year-old son and, according to Chatman, seemed to be a motherly figure to him.

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Thompson was a devout Christian.

She had a passion for volleyball and make-up.

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She was many things to many people, but ultimately she was a "caring companion."

^[1]Her fiancé used to call her "the helper."

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