Trina Garcia wants no condolences for the loss of her brother because she can’t stop thinking about the man he killed.
“I am so mad at my brother,” Garcia, 42, said through angry tears. “It was so selfish.”
Both men died at the scene and Messermore’s passenger was injured.
Garcia admits she had not been close to her brother due to his alcoholism, which allegedly began after his 15-year-old son was killed in a crash five years ago.
“My nephew – also named William – died after he was practicing driving on a dirt road in Homeland. The car flipped and landed on him,” she said, explaining that the boy had his learner’s permit and the crash happened in the presence of his mother.
“My brother wanted to die after that. He got what he wanted. Good. But he killed someone else,” she said. “He was a drunk.”
Police have not ruled the crash a suicide.
Messermore’s ashes will be interred with his son at Elsinore Valley Cemetery, but there will be no service, Garcia said.
“I want nothing for him,” she continued, noting that she and one aunt are her brother’s sole survivors.
“I’m sorry I wasn’t closer to him, but I don’t know if there was anything I could have done,” she added.
Garcia said she has not cried over the loss of her brother but instead is haunted by what he did.
“When I tear up, I’m thinking about that 25-year-old. I am so sorry for his family.”
Meanwhile, the Camilli family is trying to raise funds for Mathew's children, who were reportedly at home waiting for their father's return from the market the night he was killed.
According to the website Go Fund Me, which is accepting online donations for the family, Mathew left behind a daughter Ashley, 4, a son Travis, 2, and his fiance, Brittany, according to a posting.
"This money is going to be used to pay for the funeral and help Brittany and the kids," the posting reads. "[Mathew] is loved by many people. Especially his twin brother Louis Camilli. Please help with anything you can. Every penny counts to this family."
As to the death of the 15 year old while practice driving. Bring back drivers education in high school. I got first-class drivers education in 1970. I still can't believe they did away with it. That was a program that has paid society back in dividends of fewer highway deaths. If the 15 year old had supervised driver training in a safe area instead of messing around on a dirt road, he might still be alive.
I disagree with those who posted who seem to think you can control a drunk, it is impossible to keep someone from the path of destruction they are on--even the police cannot keep a drunk off the road at all times.
Emboldened by years of “sobriety” checkpoints and a lackluster citizen response to serial violations of the Fourth Amendment, the Florida Highway Patrol will enforce expanded efforts at revenue enhancement this month. “According to Public Affairs Office Sgt. Steve Gaskins, troopers will be looking for worn tires, bad brakes and lighting defects, in addition to driver’s license laws,” reports Hernando Today. In the past, cops usually set-up checkpoints in the evening and the wee hours of the morning to flush out drivers who dared drink alcohol and drive. Over they years, the alcohol level permissible by the state fell to a point where half a beer will get a citizen-subject thrown in the hoosegow and indebted for years to the system and its revenue enhancement apparatus. The rest of the story is here: http://www.infowars.com/cops-man-random-revenue-enhancement-checkpoints-in-florida/ and if you think it can't/won't happen here, just wait; if they get away with this elsewhere, they will try it here.
I'm sorry for all the losses..