Six years have handed since Central Michigan College pupil Ryan Tsatsos was the sufferer of a hit-and-run and the motive force has by no means been caught.
“Time has moved on, however our time stopped. Although we stand up and go to work on daily basis, and the years we flip the calendar, we nonetheless really feel prefer it’s 2015,” mentioned Julie Tsatsos.
Oct. 31 of 2015 is the night time when time stopped for Julie and Paul Tsatsos.
“All by means of Halloween night time we have been texting,” Julie Tsatsos.
Her and her son Ryan, who was freshman at Central Michigan College.
“I despatched a coronary heart after which I bought no response. And that is when my coronary heart sank,” Julie Tsatsos mentioned.
Her maternal intuition instructed her one thing was terribly mistaken.
“Round what, 1:30, 2:00? The police got here to the door. And that is once I mentioned, ‘no, you can’t be telling me one thing is mistaken with Ryan,'” Julie Tsatsos mentioned.
Police knowledgeable her that her 17-year-old son Ryan, had been killed in successful and run simply after midnight.
“I could not imagine that was taking place once more,” Julie Tsatsos.
She mentioned, “once more,” as a result of discovering out about Ryan’s loss of life was like Deja Vu. Three months earlier, their different son, Darryl, died in a automobile crash.
“Identical time, 2:30 within the morning, Sunday morning,” Paul Tsatsos mentioned.
“We needed to come to the hospital,” Julie Tsatsos mentioned.
“Virtually similar,” Paul Tsatsos mentioned.
Julie and Paul, mourning the loss of life of 1 son, have been dealing with the prospect of getting misplaced each of their youngsters. Julie mentioned a silver lining, Ryan saved another person’s life proper earlier than his loss of life.
“She was strolling to the left of him, he grabbed her and threw her to the sector, and in that point, that is when he bought hit,” Julie Tsatsos.
The Tsatsos’ describe Ryan as a selfless individual with a disposition that would brighten anybody’s temper.
“He would do something for anyone,” Julie Tsatsos mentioned.
“That infectious chuckle he had. He had this chuckle that you just could not assist, I do not care what temper you have been in, you simply needed to chuckle with him,” Paul Tsatsos mentioned.
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 mentioned.
With solely recollections left of Ryan, they’ve religion that at some point 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 mentioned.
