"She was the kind of person who would give a high-five to a stranger just to make them laugh," Carrie Ellis said of her younger sister. She was making some friends; it was beautiful," Carrie Ellis, who's 31, said in a phone interview. Neither Carrie Ellis nor two friends who spoke to The Associated Press said she had mentioned Pendergraft to them. Sara Ellis had spent much of her youth in the Melbourne, Florida, area before the family moved elsewhere, including several years in North Carolina. "We're all just doing the best that we can," Carrie Ellis said.

Source: Fox News July 27, 2018 21:22 UTC