For the family of Bermudian educator Dr Alma Foggo-York, the pedestrian killed in Huntsville, Alabama, in February, news of a “case of negligent homicide” could not come soon enough.When contacted by The Royal Gazette, Dr Yorks sister Kae Foggo said: “The wheels of justice sometimes turn slowly but If you get behind and push the wagon you can speed it up a little and guide it on its course with patience and most of all justice.”Ms Foggo added: “Our work isn’t done yet however we have at least started the wagon rolling in the right direction. It won’t bring her back but it will help to keep someone else from going through this crazy Alabama madness.”Dr York, 74, was killed when she was hit by a car as she walked across Puluski Pike in Huntsville on February 9. Plans are now underway to present a case of “negligent homicide” to a grand jury.Longtime family friend Pastor D Randolph Wilson spoke with Ms Foggo yesterday. “I am happy to know that something is being done to provide the opportunity to settle some of the many unanswered questions regarding this most unfortunate incident,” said Mr Wilson.“It is my prayer that the truth will come out and the mystery surrounding her death will be unveiled.” His earliest recollections with Dr York, known to many as Dean York, “go back many years” as she grew up in Bailey’s Bay.“Our families have been friends for more than 50 years, I was her parents’ pastor in the late 1970s and 1980s. Whenever I was visiting the US her response would be, ‘come up the house and get something to eat’, in Massachusetts as well as in Alabama,” he said.Ms Foggo said her sister, fondly called “Emmie” by her siblings “would love to be remembered as the ‘Fisher Woman of Students’, that was her life — fishing.” One of those many students is Wayne Caines.A lawyer who is now the chief executive officer at Digicel, Mr Caines remembered how Dr York once saved him from expulsion at Oakwood University in Alabama.“Dr York was the mother away from home for many of us,” said Mr Caines. “Owen Simons, who is now the Director of Music at Restoration Ministries and Bermuda Institute, myself, my brother and so many others, Craig Williams who is now a pastor and a physiotherapist, there are a number of Bermudians who went off to school to Dean York.”He recalled how he once got in trouble and was about to be expelled. “At one point she was my advocate and Dean York begged on my behalf. I was kept in school and obviously was allowed to graduate and go on to other things,” said Mr Caines. “Not only would I not be a lawyer or a professional today, she recruited me from high school when I was 16 years old.“When I heard she was run down in the street in February it made me feel as if we did something wrong. I felt helpless, I wanted to know why the police had not made an arrest, it made you think of the history of the south and so things that we think that we have evolved from, all those things still exist in your mind.“But this is just the start, it has to go before a grand jury. The grand jury does not necessarily have to file an official indictment so what it does now is they get to see the process as it starts. It’s very far from being over.“This was not a person with no means, no background, she was a member of international bodies. Not only did we lose a giant, this was a woman of national influence throughout the entire diaspora.“Knowing her well she wouldn’t want us to make a real big deal out of this. Her family is a family of faith, they don’t believe that she’s not going to be taken care of by God the Father, they just want to see her life have value and that somebody will be held accountable for her untimely passing.”To him and so many others Mr Caines said: “We all gravitated towards Dean York because she was committed to our future, sometimes people go away and they forget their home. She went away and kept reminding us all of who we were, where we came from and made us know that we had to go home and make a difference.”Dr York was well-known to many Bermudian students who attended Oakwood in Huntsville and Atlantic Union College in Massachusetts.