Twin drown four days after mother's wedding

CENTER TOWNSHIP, IN - They were born
together, and four days after serving as
flower girls in their mother’s wedding,
they died together.
Those are the heartbreaking details
surrounding the drowning deaths of 2-
year-old twin sisters Shaylyn and Jocelyn
Spurlock in the small town of Center
Township, Ind.
"We had a wedding (April 5) and it's
ironic that the same church the (girls'
mother) was married in... is where the
girls are going to have their funeral one
week later," said their grandfather, Jim
Conley. "Saturday is going to be rough for
us all."
Conley remembered his "angels" as being
inseparable from one another.
"One thing about them, they were never,
ever apart -- if one walked off, the other
one would catch up," he remembered.
"We brought two beds to the house and
they would only sleep in one."
Conley described it as "cruel irony" that
the desire to be by one another’s side
may have played a role in their deaths.
He said the girls were watching their
favorite TV show at their home Tuesday
night while his ex-wife sat in the other
room while the girls' parents were out
running an errand. Somehow the twins
managed to get out of the house and then
wandered over to the swimming pool two
doors down.
Dearborn County authorities said the 2-
year-old girls were reported missing just
before 7 p.m. Tuesday.
At about 8:15 p.m., a neighbor found
Shaylyn and Jocelyn in an above-ground
pool. They were lying unresponsive in a
collection of water that had gathered on
top of the pool’s cover.
"I was in my yard with my husband,"
recalled Heather Bressert the night after
the incident. "A couple of firemen and my
husband noticed something in my
neighbors’ pool. While we were walking
down there we quickly figured out what
we saw was a small child."
Bressert said she ran to the pool after the
grim discovery was made.
"I ran, picked one of the little girls up and
brought her up to a fireman and started
CPR," she said. "Another fireman jumped
in the pool to pick up the other little girl."
The girls were eventually taken to
Dearborn County Hospital where they
later died.
Conley said his daughter, Bryeanna Conley
and her husband, who moved to the area
about a month before the accident, are
"excellent parents."
"My daughter and son-in-law are great
parents. The children were loved, they
were all loved and we miss them dearly
the good parents."
And now the two girls who spent every
night together the same bed will spend
eternity with one another.
"They're going to be buried in the one
coffin with angels on it because they
always liked angels,” Conley said.