Mother of 8 hit and killed by train during morning run: ‘She was an angel’

ELOY, Ariz. (AZFamily/Gray News) - An Arizona family is grieving after a mother of eight was hit and killed by a train while on a morning run.Thelma Candelaria, 47, was a caregiver and mother of eight children. She had been baptized less than a week before her death in what was supposed to be the start of a new beginning.She went out for a routine run Thursday morning in Eloy. She was recording the run on social media, and her daughter, Alaisha Candelaria, provided videos showing her smiling and in good spirits.“She was singing along to Jessie Reyez, which is her favorite artist. She was laughing,” said Alaisha Candelaria of her mother.Alaisha Candelaria would later use her mother’s videos, along with surveillance footage, to piece together what happened next.She never saw the train that killed herDuring her run, Thelma Candelaria stopped at a railroad crossing around 6 a.m. As she was recording one train, a separate train on another track approached her from the opposite direction, ac