Heartbroken mother: 'My son didn't ask for this'

ATLANTA — A mother is heartbroken because her child can't speak or even respond to her voice.

He was injured in a violent crash Friday night that killed his friend and also injured another boy.

“My son didn't ask for this. He was walking to the store for a pack of Kool-Aid,” the mother, Teresa Lawrence, said. “He didn't make it back.”  %

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Lawrence told Channel 2’s Linda Stouffer that her son Timothy Hood, 13, is her best friend. But with him lying in intensive care with two skull fractures, he can't even tell her what hurts.

“That's my baby. I'll be calling his name and I asked the nurse, ‘Do they know who I am?’ They can't say right now.

Medical teams rushed Timothy to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston by helicopter Friday night after the deadly crash.

Atlanta police say Ryan Lisabeth, the driver of the vehicle involved in the mishap, was high when he plowed into

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after his parents made the choice to remove him from a respirator. Isaiah’s brother Roland Ward was also injured.  %

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Lisabeth has three previous DUI convictions on his record. That’s something Lawrence just cannot understand.

“I ask for mercy, mercy for my child. I ask for justice. He doesn't deserve to get out,” Lawrence told Stouffer.

Lawrence said she only leaves her son's bedside when she has to care for her other young children.

“I get on the bus. I go home. I cook. I make sure my girl’s hair is done,” Lawrence said. “He's been fighting ever since, so we are not going to stop fighting.”

The family is holding a candlelight vigil Wednesday in support of the boys at the site of the crash. That vigil is expected to start at 8 p.m.

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