Family remembers Cincinnati nursing student killed in crash with balloon release

Family remembers Cincinnati nursing student killed in crash with balloon release Advertisement Updated: 11:20 PM EST Nov 11, 2026 Editorial Standards ⓘ Matthew Dietz Digital Editor Family remembers Cincinnati nursing student killed in crash with balloon release Updated: 11:20 PM EST Nov 11, 2026 Editorial Standards ⓘ Matthew Dietz Digital Editor CINCINNATI — The family of Carlie Berry, a 19-year-old nursing student killed in a crash earlier this year, gathered in Lower Price Hill to release balloons in her memory on Wednesday. Berry died in January, in a crash at the intersection of West 8th and Depot streets. Police said 23-year-old Jermain Isham was driving 54 miles per hour in a 25 MPH zone. Advertisement Footage from the scene shows Isham acting erratically before officers used a Taser on him. While Isham faces multiple charges, including OVI, he has not been charged in connection with Berry’s death, something her family is pushing to change. "We love her so much and she was too young to have her life taken that way; she had literally just turned 19," said Carolyn Peterson, Berry’s grandmother. After the crash, Berry’s family also put up billboards reminding drivers to slow down. In addition to the billboard overlooking the crash site, the family added a second billboard at Glenway and Boudinot ahead of Berry’s birthday later this month. Make WLWT a preferred source on Google Add Preferred Source Share Infinite Scroll Enabled Top Picks Why are gas prices dropping and how low will they go? WATCH: Ocean liner SS United States is sunk off Florida's coast after a long goodbye JoBe Cerny, who voiced the Pillsbury Doughboy, has died Lessie Benningfield Randle, the last known Tulsa Race Massacre survivor, turns 112