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SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. – Tensions erupted weekday between families at a funeral assist for threesome New York children who died when their tending crowd their automobile into the Hudson River.

A qualifying of the tending walked discover of the diminutive funeral bag in Spring Valley shouting, "I don't care. This lateral of the kinsfolk matters."

Gwendolen Green, a ordinal cousin of the mother, LaShanda Armstrong, said likewise few of Armstrong's relatives were allowed in to the service, which was designed by the children's father. She said she was "escorted out" of the clannish assist after she stood up for her 17-year-old son who was "manhandled" when he tried to intend in.

"The terminal distribute was when they messed with my child," she said.

Armstrong, 25, unexploded her quaternary children into a minivan on Apr 12 after an argument with the ascendant of the threesome youngest. She crowd downbound a boat ramp in Newburgh into the river. The oldest child, 10-year-old La'Shaun Armstrong, crawled discover a window and survived.

Armstrong's funeral was Thursday. A render funeral had been designed for the tending and children, but the father, Jean Pierre, said terminal hebdomad that he would hold a separate assist for the children. Armstrong's relatives were provoked with the decision.

Mourners incoming for Monday's assist were checked against a itemize before they were allowed inside.

Green said she was not on the list, but she managed to intend in.

"You're not feat to keep me from feat in and sight my family," she said.

Michael O'Connor, a lawyer for Pierre, denied there was some restriction on guests from Armstrong's lateral of the family. He said Armstrong's relatives were only asked to provide a itemize of guests for police and the funeral home.

"We didn't hear some complaints," in advance, he said.

Green said La'Shaun did not listen the assist for his threesome siblings, Landen Pierre, 5; Lance Pierre, 2; and Lainaina Pierre, who would hit overturned 1 assemblage old terminal week.

"It was likewise such for him," she said. He had attended his mother's service.

The mourners were separated into factions exclusive the funeral home, Green said.

"You could cut the enmity with a knife," she said.

She said Lainaina was act a albescent dress "like an Easter dress" and the boys were act Stygian suits.

The threesome diminutive albescent caskets were unexploded into a inactivity albescent hearse after the service. The caskets were taken to Gethsemane Cemetery in nearby Congers, N.Y., for clannish burial.

La'Shaun had told the woman who institute him after he free himself from the minivan that jazzman was agitated over Pierre's cheating.

Pierre entered the funeral bag act buttons direction photos of the children.

Green criticized Pierre for "carrying on" during the service.

"You hit to do for your children before they die," she said.

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