'I held my baby's hand'

October 2024 · 2 minute read

A mother is begging for justice after a crash on a Texas road claimed the lives of three teens.

The crash happened Sunday on West 3rd and Peyton St. in Baird, Texas. Ashlie Haynes, 35, was arrested in connection to the deadly crash and charged with driving while intoxicated.

One of the three teens who lost their lives in the fatal crash was 16-year-old Ryan Bilby. His mother, Ashley Rudder, says the tire marks on the road where the crash occurred are a constant reminder that her family will never be the same.

My cousin was behind them, and she called me screaming at like 2 or 3 in the morning,” Rudder said. “She said 'get here now. There’s been a wreck. It’s Bubba. Get here now.' It’s my baby.

The mother said she rushed to the scene as fast as she could.

Ryan’s friend said 'I got him momma,'” Rudder said. “I was just trying to find him. It was chaotic. I saw the backseat of the car on the ground. The car was in a hundred pieces. I just got there. I held my baby’s hand.

Rudder said she watched paramedics wheel her son away and now she’s only left with memories.

“He had the biggest heart,” Rudder said. “He loved sports. He loved his coaches, and he loved me. He was a momma’s boy.”

As Rudder grieves the loss of her baby boy, she says she’s thankful she has a piece of him to hold on to.

“The school just gave me his football jersey,” Rudder said. “He loved football, and now I will have his football jerseys with me forever. He was number 30. I love you more than all the stars in the sky, the rockets and the moons, and monkeys in Africa, baby."

The other crash victims were identified as 18 year olds, Layni Potter and Madi Buchanan.

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