Six years have handed since Central Michigan College scholar Ryan Tsatsos was the sufferer of a hit-and-run and the driving force has by no means been caught.
“Time has moved on, however our time stopped. Although we rise up and go to work day by day, and the years we flip the calendar, we nonetheless really feel prefer it’s 2015,” stated Julie Tsatsos.
Oct. 31 of 2015 is the night time when time stopped for Julie and Paul Tsatsos.
“All by way of Halloween night time we had been texting,” Julie Tsatsos.
Her and her son Ryan, who was freshman at Central Michigan College.
“I despatched a coronary heart after which I obtained no response. And that is when my coronary heart sank,” Julie Tsatsos stated.
Her maternal intuition advised her one thing was terribly unsuitable.
“Round what, 1:30, 2:00? The police got here to the door. And that is after I stated, ‘no, you can’t be telling me one thing is unsuitable with Ryan,'” Julie Tsatsos stated.
Police knowledgeable her that her 17-year-old son Ryan, had been killed in a success and run simply after midnight.
“I could not imagine that was occurring once more,” Julie Tsatsos.
She stated, “once more,” as a result of discovering out about Ryan’s dying was like Deja Vu. Three months earlier, their different son, Darryl, died in a automotive crash.
“Identical time, 2:30 within the morning, Sunday morning,” Paul Tsatsos stated.
“We needed to come to the hospital,” Julie Tsatsos stated.
“Nearly similar,” Paul Tsatsos stated.
Julie and Paul, mourning the dying of 1 son, had been going through the prospect of getting misplaced each of their kids. Julie stated a silver lining, Ryan saved another person’s life proper earlier than his dying.
“She was strolling to the left of him, he grabbed her and threw her to the sphere, and in that point, that is when he obtained hit,” Julie Tsatsos.
The Tsatsos’ describe Ryan as a selfless particular person with a disposition that might brighten anybody’s temper.
“He would do something for anyone,” Julie Tsatsos stated.
“That infectious chuckle he had. He had this chuckle that you simply could not assist, I do not care what temper you had been in, you simply needed to chuckle with him,” Paul Tsatsos stated.
The case stays unsolved, and Ryan’s dad and mom await the solutions to questions they’ve been asking for years like Who did it?
“I do not understand how they sleep at night time,” Julie Tsatsos stated.
With solely recollections left of Ryan, they’ve religion that in the future they may reunite.
“The hope of seeing him once more when our day has come, that is the one factor that retains us going. If I did not have that. It is vacancy,” Julie Tsatsos stated.
