ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Jessica Hughes always had a special connection with her sister. It was a twin thing. “We were really close even if it was from a distance,” Jessica said. “We wouldn't have to talk every day or anything but if one of us called we'd always answer.” The fact that Jessica would always answer says a lot because Jessica didn't like talking on the phone. That's why when her phone rang early New Year's Day she almost didn't pick up. Almost. “I was sleeping. I saw it was a verified number so I rolled over to go back to sleep and something just kind of nudged me and maybe I should answer it so I answered it. I think I was the first one in my family to get the call,” Jessica said. She learned from a Rochester police detective that her sister was dead. Justina had been in an Uber with her friend Josh Orr. They, like many others, had just finished watching a New Year's Eve concert at Kodak Center. Ripple Effect: 1 year after Kodak Center attack As concertgoers left the venue, a man drove an SUV packed with filled gas cans towards the crowd, but he struck Justina and Josh's Uber before reaching the crowd. Justina and Josh were killed along with Dawn Revette who had been walking nearby. The detective called Jessica first because hers was the last phone to have called Justina. “It was like 3:30 in the morning, me and my daughter and her father were still awake and I had gotten up to go the bathroom and my daughter somehow managed to get past facial recognition and my fingerprint scanner and went into my phone, she's two by the way, and went into my phone, found my sister's contact and called her so my call was the last call that came on Justina's phone,” Jessica said. “I think the way everything played out with my daughter calling her and me getting the first call was Justina's way of saying that I needed to find out first.” A twin thing, perhaps. While the loss was devastating, Jessica said her sister's memory has been a blessing. “I think I finally understand the meaning of life is short, so I've been kind of taking time this year to work on myself and be better and go out of my way to actually do the things that I love to do,” she said. Justina's aunt, Jennifer Hughes, was the one who saw Justina and Josh off to the concert that night. “They were excited, they were excited about things coming up in their lives,” Jennifer said. That promise of wonderful things to come only magnified the shock. “I had actually woken up, looked at my phone, and looked at the news that this had happened, I knew that they were there, and I texted Justina and said, I know you're probably fine and I'm being a worry wart, but just let me know you're OK and probably 15 minutes after that I got the call,” Jennifer recalled.”It was horrible.” Jennifer said her initial anger has faded and has been replaced by confusion. “I can't wrap my head around it,” she said. “I worked at a psychological counseling center several years ago and I've seen a lot of stuff, but it's very hard to understand how someone, I guess I understand him being suicidal, but I can't understand why he needed to take others with him and that to me is more the mystery, why that, why did you do it that way.”